Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...

Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...

The clampdown on illegal mining cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground. At least 78 bodies were pulled from ...

Marvel was once a thriving coal mining community in Bibb County, home to three Roden Coal Co. shafts and a small village for ...

Teracita Keyanna (Diné) has lived a life touched by uranium. Growing up in the Coyote Chapter in the Eastern Navajo Nation, ...

Contention over the now-nixed purchase of U.S. Steel by Nippon Steel this past week has put the troubled and changing steel ...

Touting an unconventional approach, Contango Ore says it can develop mines faster and with a smaller environmental footprint.

A new law decades in the making could finally lead to the cleanup of some of the thousands of abandoned mines in Colorado ...

The abandoned mine is one of more than 400 throughout ... Passaic County [and] Sussex County had iron mines.” The Sterling Hill Mine was one of two prominent zinc mines in New Jersey and was ...

Subsequently, the gradient on the rough path moderated and we proceeded over gentle rolling hills past a spur trail on the left that drops to abandoned iron mines. A short distance beyond the ...

Morris County has a large concentration of abandoned iron mines dating back to the 18th and 19th centuries. The municipality of Mine Hill gets its name from this history and Rockaway Township uses ...