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

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 ...

When nail tech Sabrina Cazorla left her house Thursday to run errands, she saw the line of traffic that’s become commonplace ...

a 64-year-old grandmother, was swallowed up by a sinkhole in Unity Township, Pennsylvania, on Dec. 3. Pollard seemingly fell into the hole which led to an abandoned mining shaft, and her remains ...

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

Elizabeth Pollard died in December after falling into a sinkhole at an abandoned mine in Unity Township, Westmoreland County. Action News Investigates has learned there are dozens of other ...

The Sterling Mine, the last operating mine in New Jersey, suspended large-scale commercial mining operations in 1986. Since ...

The state Bureau of Abandoned Mine Reclamation will examine the scene when the search concludes to see if the sinkhole was indeed caused by mine subsidence, spokesperson Neil Shader said.

There are more than 400 abandoned mines across New Jersey. At one point, they were essential to the state economy.

With 588 abandoned mines throughout northern New Jersey, the Avalon apartments are far from the only structures built in proximity to these old shafts. Paul Santi, a professor of geology and ...

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 ...