A former coal mine in western Maryland is now home to a 160-megawatt solar farm, the largest ever built in the state.

A portion of Warm Lake Road previously only accessible to snow mobiles will be plowed starting this winter to allow access to the Stibnite mining site. A gate for the road, likely installed near Warm ...

Lundgren, who calls himself the Glacial Gold Hunter, is a 40-year-old geologist who has spent the last year and a half ...

A 54-year-old hiker’s fatal fall into an abandoned mine shaft near Ouray last month highlights a broader danger left behind by Colorado’s rich mining history: more than 23,000 inactive mining sites, ...

A Colorado woman who fell to her death after stumbling into a vertical mineshaft while hiking has highlighted a potential hazard that lies beneath our feet. On October 20, Jennifer Nelson, 54, slipped ...

Communities along Cambodia’s O’Ta Bouk River are experiencing severe water contamination, skin ailments and the collapse of fish stocks, which they blame on an unregulated gold mine operating upstream ...

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As the first anniversary of North Jersey's Route 80 sinkhole shutdown approaches, motorists traumatized by six months of time-consuming detours may wonder: Could it happen again? Hoping to avoid a ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A gold mine in Mexico was taken over by the sons of the drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. Mexican officials and ...

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Deep inside an abandoned mine in the Krusne hory (Ore Mountains) of northwest Czech Republic, Jakub Kristek's radiation meter crackles with urgency as he picks up a fist-sized rock. "Uranium ore," he ...