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Portal 31 mine in Lynch, Kentucky is one of few Kentucky mines that have been repurposed into an engine of economic activity. Meredith Perkins In 1948, over 75,000 Kentuckians worked in coal mines.

Decades after underground coal mining all but ended in Eastern Pennsylvania, residents of certain areas continue today to face a hidden danger: mine subsidence. Gaping holes sometimes open without ...

OFFICIALS WANT YOU TO HEAR IN THE AFTERMATH OF THIS TRAGEDY. PENNSYLVANIA’S DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION SAYS ONE THIRD OF AMERICA’S ABANDONED MINE LANDS ARE HERE IN PENNSYLVANIA. I’M ...

The bipartisan measure comes after 19th century iron mines caused sinkholes that closed I-80 for months and required $30 ...

Mere feet from a prospect pit where miners dug for gold in the second half of the 19th century, bikers whizzed by on the Maryland Mountain trail system west of Denver. “This one is 15-to-16-feet deep ...

NEW JERSEY — An unstable crater in the forest floor is just another reminder of the state's rich mining history and the many tunnels left behind and hiding just under the surface. Timothy Rack stands ...

Plans to fix up abandoned mine lands and clean a mine-polluted watershed in two Schuylkill County municipalities are moving forward thanks to a $550,000 federal grant. The money is to be used to ...

A Washington state man died while exploring an abandoned mine on Prince of Wales Island earlier this month, leading to an extended recovery effort. Fifty-year-old Devin Albert was visiting his cousin ...

Deep inside an abandoned mine in the Krusne hory (Ore Mountains) of northwest Czech Republic, Jakub Kristek's radiation meter crackles with urgency as he picks up a fist-sized rock. "Uranium ore," he ...

A missing man from West Virginia and a missing man from Virginia were found dead in an abandoned drift mine, officials said. In a news release posted to Facebook, the Buchanan County Sheriff's Office ...