NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – As New Mexico transitions away from coal power and towards a greener grid, abandoned coal mines are left behind. Now, the state is getting $2.8 million in federal funding to ...

James over at Low-Buck Garage bought himself part of an abandoned silver mine out in the hinterlands of New Mexico, and it ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – A federal agency said seven more abandoned uranium mines will be cleaned up on Navajo land in New Mexico.The EPA said it will target the sites near Smith Lake and Mariano ...

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

said to the New Mexican. Even if mining companies "would like to clean up abandoned sites in an area, the liability hurdles make it challenging." Justin Klawans has worked as a staff writer at The ...

Near the western New Mexico town of Grants, the toxic legacy of Cold War uranium mining and milling has shattered lives, ...

particularly in the Permian Basin straddling Texas and New Mexico. Those two states are already responsible for cleaning up about 7,000 such abandoned wells, a task that will cost at least $335 ...

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 ...