The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy says some of the abandoned mines are old mines whose owners cannot be traced. This, as calls intensify for the government to hold the owners of abandoned ...

IDAHO, USA — Mining has been a bedrock of Idaho's economy since before the Gem State became a state, but an environmental nonprofit group says abandoned mines are leaving a legacy that's harming ...

Reports say hundreds of illegal miners, who entered an abandoned mine in search of leftover gold, refuse to come out for fear they may be arrested. A crowd of supporters gathered near the mine to ...

IRON COUNTY, Utah (WKRC) - A man fell nearly 50 feet into an abandoned mine. According to PEOPLE, citing information from the Iron County Search and Rescue, a man fell approximately 50 feet into ...

Johannesburg — More than 4,000 miners locked in a standoff with South African authorities over illegal mining were believed to be sick and increasingly weak inside an abandoned mine shaft Thursday.

She had just given birth to their daughter, and he, with no job and a growing family to feed, risked arrest by descending thousands of feet into an abandoned gold mine, hoping to scrape enough of ...

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"Our operations are ongoing; we are static. It is not like we are blocking; there is no entry or exit point at these abandoned mines that is blocked. “We are simply stopping and preventing ...

FOR years, Nigeria has become a vault of abandoned projects, big and small. The abandoned projects scattered across Nigeria have exacerbated the country’s chequered infrastructure development ...

"We have taken a decision that no police officer, no soldier or government official will go down to an abandoned mine. There is a high risk of loss of life," Mathe said. Mathe stated that ...