The Sterling Mine, the last operating mine in New Jersey, suspended large-scale commercial mining operations in 1986. Since ...

All westbound I-80 lanes near the Route 15 interchange in Wharton were closed Wednesday after a hole opened during drilling ...

In its 2024 annual performance forecast, Huaxi Nonferrous previously announced that the company expects the net profit ...

Three sinkholes have appeared on the section of Route 80 that opened in 1960. Questions surround the contractor, but is there more to it?

A 16-year-old boy was rescued after his climbing rope broke while exploring a 50-foot-deep vertical mine shaft in California. The Placer County Fire Department’s rescue team arrived at the scene ...

Lead, SD, March 18, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in the Black Hills of South Dakota is America’s Underground Lab – with cutting-edge experiments in biology ...

Just because a mine has been exhausted of its ore, that doesn't necessarily mean it has no value. A 2023 study suggests that the shafts of such abandoned mines could serve as energy-storing ...

During the tour you’ll see the original 700-foot-deep mine shaft – once contracted to produce 90,000 tons of anthracite coal – as well as a former miner's hospital, among other highlights.