The U.S. Interior Department said Wednesday $13 million in grants are being disbursed to reclaim abandoned mine lands in an ...

The San Juan Skyway links four mountain ranges and five historic mining towns in one 233-mile loop. Between Durango and ...

There are about 500,000 abandoned mines in the United States ... detected in waters associated with the historic Kings Mountain Mine" in North Carolina, said Newsweek. In these waters, it was ...

Nevada is home to more than 300,000 abandoned ... of feet down a mine shaft seems the most obvious. There’s also the fauna — a deadly rattlesnake, a sleeping mountain lion, a rabid bat ...

This study is being conducted at several abandoned mines in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, including the Mead Mine (located in the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park) and the Keel-ridge and ...

In addition to being a place for adventure and fitness, Red Mountain Park is a historical and natural treasure. The park contains artifacts of Birmingham’s industrial history—specifically the city’s ...

State officials are aware of about 2,700 sites where mining or prospecting took place in the Garden State. The state Department of Environmental Protection lists 588 abandoned mines in its ...