For me, there’s no use in complaining,” a Trout Unlimited mining coordinator said. “I’d rather do a thorough job than rush a ...

BLUEFIELD — Projects in the Southwest Virginia counties of Tazewell and Buchanan are among the five chosen for grants through the Abandoned Mine Land Economic Revitalization program, a federally ...

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.

So that’s our job to clean that up.” The sites are also highly susceptible to erosion because of the steep slopes and lack of vegetation. Iowa has more than 13,000 acres of abandoned mine land.

The Ohio River Valley Institute estimates more than 400,000 people live within a mile of that abandoned mine land.WKYT’s ...

Iowa, a national leader in reclaiming abandoned coal mines, is launching its largest project yet in the Pella Wildlife Area ...

Commercial exploration, development, and mining of uranium at Quivira Mines began in the late 1960s by the Kerr-McGee Corporation and later its subsidiary. The mine sites are the former Church ...

It's a grueling and risky life for these miners, known as zama zamas, an isiZulu phrase translating loosely as "those who ...

Federal dollars to clean up abandoned mine land and turn it into community development aren't being spent, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.

RICHMOND, Va. (WVVA) - Two counties in our area will be seeing funding to reclaim abandoned mine lands. In Tazewell County, ...

A person has been taken to Greymouth Hospital in a serious condition after falling down the old Tyneside Mine on the West ...