Many abandoned mines and ghost towns are situated in remote, inaccessible areas. You often drive far from major towns. Cell ...

Rescue workers look on as a cage is lifted from an abandoned gold shaft in Stilfontein, South Africa, on Thursday. They look like the walking dead. Dusty men, skin and hair caked in dirt, skeletal.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have been trapped deep in an abandoned gold mine ...

MIDLAND, N.C. — Midland fire units and other responders successfully rescued a fawn from an abandoned shaft at Reed Gold Mine on Thursday morning. ALSO READ: SC firefighters buck muddy creek to save ...

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As the former administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, my job was to protect both public health and the environment, including protecting Americans from toxic exposures. In that ...

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 ...

Explore Wyoming’s forgotten ghost towns where dusty streets and empty saloons still whisper stories of the Old West.

JOHANNESBURG – A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader known as “Tiger” escaped from custody with help from police officers after resurfacing last week from a disused mine in South Africa where ...