Sen. Dave Argall (R-29) and Rep. Tim Twardzik (R-123) visited the site of an ongoing abandoned mine land reclamation project ...

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin and Congressman Morgan Griffith announced Tuesday that two abandoned mine land sites in ...

New Mexico environment officials say cleanup starting on some uranium, petroleum sites but millions are needed to address the ...

For decades, thousands of sites associated with abandoned uranium mine waste have remained contaminated — many on or near ...

For more than a century, abandoned mines such as the Triumph Mine in central Idaho have scarred the American West, leaking toxic heavy metals into waterways and threatening communities and ecosystems.

Many abandoned mines and ghost towns are situated in remote, inaccessible areas. You often drive far from major towns. Cell ...

Today, tens of thousands of these abandoned hardrock mines continue to leak acidic, metal-laden water into pristine streams ...

Dozens of people get injured or die in the U.S. every year because they don’t follow this simple advice: Stay out of abandoned and active mines and surrounding lands. Abandoned mines are not history ...

The company has partnered with Apple, Tiffany and Co., and Canadian jewelry company Mejuri, which have agreed to buy metals ...

It doesn’t take much for a century-old mine shaft to cave in around you. Or for the mercury, lead or arsenic leftovers to leech into the Silver State’s already strained groundwater supply. That’s why, ...

Dozens of people get injured or die in the U.S. every year because they don’t follow this simple advice: Stay out of abandoned and active mines and surrounding lands. Abandoned mines are not history ...