Silver Islet Mine Shafts were established in 1868, plunging up to 365 metres below Lake Superior and producing more than $3 million in silver before shutting down just 16 years later. According to ...

Some say ghosts walk the dusty streets of this abandoned silver-mining town. With a murder a ... Angeles by speeding silver ingots across Owens Lake. On the opposite shore, near Cartago, the ...

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Today, it serves as a troubling reminder of the legacy left behind by the abandoned gold and silver mines ... the abandoned mines," Williams said. "A cave-in acts as a dam and a lake forms behind ...

One site where Trout Unlimited has worked is the abandoned gold and silver Orphan Boy Mine near Alma, Colorado. Jason Willis, the director of the group's Western Abandoned Mine Lands Program ...