The recent sinkholes on I-80 were caused by long-abandoned mines. See the map showing hundreds of closed New Jersey mines.

Before the United States was a country, New Jersey was mine country. State officials are aware of about 2,700 sites where mining or prospecting took place in the Garden State. The state Department of ...

Opened in the 1950s, the mine was abandoned in the 1980s when lithium ... will be essential for future lithium mining projects in North Carolina and beyond. The Kings Mountain Mine itself is ...

The watershed is located in northwestern Boulder County, near the towns of Ward and Jamestown in the area of the historic Jamestown Mining District. The residents of Ward and Jamestown essentially ...

But the old mines also left behind a legacy of trouble for today’s Westerners. Abandoned mines dot the Western landscape, polluting the region’s streams with acid mine drainage and connecting the ...

The abandoned mines that have caused sinkholes on I-80 in New Jersey will be monitored by both state and federal officials to ensure the safety of the highway, officials said. Gov. Phil Murphy’s ...

Nevada is home to more than 300,000 abandoned mines — mines that can kill you in an almost unimaginable number of ways. But those mines from Nevada’s olden days are attracting a modern-day ...

A program to reclaim and restore land contaminated by abandoned mines in Iowa has halted work due to funding uncertainty from the federal government. The Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation program ...

New Mexico could soon be cleaning up some of the hundreds of abandoned uranium mines and other contaminated sites around the state and paving the way for continued efforts — if $50 million for that ...

A woman’s body was found early Saturday, Feb. 22, at this gas station west of Washington, North Carolina, the Pitt County Sheriff’s Office says. Street View image from Aug. 2023.

The UK is home to many ancient sites, but few are as fascinating as the abandoned Roman gold mines hidden in the Welsh countryside. The Dolaucothi Gold Mines in Carmarthenshire date back over ...

The remains, which were found Feb. 21 inside an underground water reservoir beneath an abandoned water plant in the 600 block of Water Street, were identified by the North Carolina Medical ...