Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. Story continues below map of abandoned mines in New Jersey. All eyes recently have been on one mine in particular: Mount Pleasant Mine.

The state Bureau of Abandoned Mine Reclamation will examine the scene ... “We just need to do our best to map them and then getting people to avoid building on them — or at least knowing ...

“While DEP has made strides inventorying these abandoned mine land features, digitizing maps and completing projects … the need far outpaces the resources available.” In October of last ...

New Jersey DOT officials do not have accurate maps of where the oldest abandoned mines and vertical shafts are located throughout the state — some of which opened as far back as the 18th century ...

The U.S. West is dotted with abandoned mines that pollute water and impair habitat, the legacy of earlier generations’ pursuit of wealth and industrial feedstock. In our 2005 report on abandoned mines ...

But these same mines, mostly now abandoned, pose a high risk for thrill seekers. Two such men were pulled uninjured from an abandoned, 250-foot vertical mineshaft near Twentynine Palms on Saturday ...