produced the industrial feedstock for modern society, and endowed many Western locales with colorful cultural heritages. But the old mines also left behind a legacy of trouble for today’s Westerners.

Alexandra Lawler has counted 50 to 60 cracks throughout her Avalon Wharton apartment complex. She scrolls through pics of ...

The Sterling Mine, the last operating mine in New Jersey, suspended large-scale commercial mining operations in 1986. Since ...

The recent sinkholes on I-80 were caused by long-abandoned mines. See the map showing hundreds of closed New Jersey mines.

Data shows there are about 8,800 abandoned mines across Idaho ... or the companies are more modern - but have gotten bankrupt," Johnson said. "There's no one to hold accountable there, so it ...

The soil instability near the interchange with Route 15 is blamed on abandoned mines beneath the highway that are slowly collapsing. The New Jersey Department of Transportation has been shoring up ...

A large abandoned mine pit in Ziyou village of Chongqing's Banan district that was converted into a scenic spot recently attracted flooding tourists thanks to dazzling canola flowers. [Photo by ...

Abandoned mine waste pollutes the nearby Little Anderson ... in the mid-1700s and has continued on,” said McAllister. Modern reclamation laws were only signed into law during the Carter ...

With 588 abandoned mines throughout northern New Jersey ... work done is in line with current engineering standards and with modern material, he said. “We actually published a paper ...