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 ...

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 ...

The US Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) announced Monday nearly $120 million in fiscal year 2026 abandoned mine land reclamation fee-based grants for eligible states and ...

A New Mexico lawmaker wants the state to spend more money to help clean up sites that could contaminate land, water and air.

South Wales' abandoned coal mines could hold the key to greener heating across the U.K. Scientists from Aberystwyth University have mapped the microbes that thrive in the mines. These tiny organisms ...

Dec. 10—New Mexico's Environment Department plans to finish cleaning up at least one abandoned uranium mine by next summer, and has begun site evaluations at 15 uranium mine and mill sites in the ...

These weren’t safe or stable places to explore. Two abandoned mines, each with their own risks and unknowns. Loose rock, poor ...

BRANCH TOWNSHIP — Sen. Dave Argall (R-29) and Rep. Tim Twardzik (R-123) visited the site of an ongoing abandoned mine land reclamation project near Branchdale on Friday. The project, spearheaded by ...

When Emmanuel Siyabonga was a boy, he wasn't fussy about the type of job he wanted when he grew up. Other boys dreamed of being footballers, doctors, soldiers. All Siyabonga wanted, he says, was a job ...

Ahead of Mining Indaba 2026, a new Illegal Mining Compact could curb Zama Zama activity by formalising small-scale mining and ...