Steeped in centuries of old diamond history, a seaside city in Africa has been left abandoned and frozen in time for over 70 ...

While a tragedy that day was averted, sinkholes attributed to abandoned mines have occasionally proven deadly for generations, in New Jersey and elsewhere. In November 1963, a 15-year-old boy was ...

The sinkhole on Route 80 is over one of the 400 mines active during the Revolutionary War but it's hard to accurately ...

This community of about 1,000 was doomed when a garbage fire ignited abandoned coal mines that ran right under the town. Despite every effort to extinguish it, the fire has been burning since 1962.

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David van Wyk sees transforming abandoned mines into development facilities as a solution to illegal mining, creating jobs and eliminating criminal syndicates.

In New Hampshire, many people may be unfamiliar with the issue. We tend not to think of our state as having old abandoned mines that through past abuses or neglect are out there polluting our water ...

While a tragedy that day was averted, sinkholes attributed to abandoned mines have occasionally proven deadly for generations, in New Jersey and elsewhere. In November 1963, a 15-year-old boy was ...