"Worries about the long-term environmental costs have mounted in Appalachian and other oil and gas-producing communities across the country." ...

PennDOT announced Friday afternoon that damage from an abandoned mine has closed one section of a Cambria County ...

Credit: HALO/Google Maps Declassified images from U.S. military satellites are helping find forgotten mine fields in Cambodia ...

Despite advanced satellite, electric current and seismic technologies, uncovering 100-year-old abandoned mines is a job the ...

That way you have access to maps, attractions, and logistical information in ... Blackburn are well worth the lactic acid—as ...

This shift toward renewable storage in abandoned mines is supported by research from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). Their findings suggest that using Underground ...

April 9 (UPI) --The U.S. Interior Department said Wednesday $13 million in grants are being disbursed to reclaim abandoned mine lands in an effort to revitalize coal communities. "Restoring these ...

“There is total lack of control over the number of potentially abandoned mines, the size of areas requiring restoration, and the severity of degradation and damage caused,” stated the ANM ...

It wasn’t until 1977, said Michael Hewitt, the program director at the nonprofit Eastern PA Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation, when the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act gave ...

More than 85% of the state's abandoned mines excavated iron-bearing magnetite ore from a wide band of hard rock formations known as the Highlands Region. Story continues below map of abandoned ...