Head to this small Missouri town to explore an abandoned mine, where you can kayak on an underground lake or play disc golf ...

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

From Europe to North America, an energy revolution is breathing new life into empty, long-forgotten coal mine shafts—by repurposing them into places to store renewable energy. Using "gravity batteries ...

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 ...

Garnet is one of Montana’s best-preserved ghost towns, where original buildings and guided tours bring 19th-century mining ...

A version of this story was originally published on Jan. 17, 2025. Drivers on Interstate 80 long have grappled with gridlock, sun glare and other unavoidable headaches of traveling in a densely ...

Artisanal coal miner Emmanuel Siyabonga hauls a sack of coal to a client's car at the abandoned Golfview coal mine in Ermelo, South Africa. The work is grueling and hazardous but is one of the few ...

The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship announced Thursday it was beginning construction on eight abandoned ...

The firm behind plans to reopen an historic Cornish tin and tungsten mine are to carry out further borehole drilling after ...