Join me in my adventures as I explore hidden gems, lost secrets, and forgotten relics tucked away all over America, and ...

He had fallen 100 feet to the bottom of an abandoned gold ... to the Arizona Mining Association, and over the next 400 years, the state’s rich bed of gold, silver, copper and other precious ...

Want more proof that the industry is on the decline? Just take a look at these abandoned coal mines, which have long since turned into dilapidated, incredibly creepy caves that belong in a horror ...

This week’s explore took us deep underground—into a massive abandoned mine with a hidden underground lake! After four hours inside, we still didn’t see it all, but what we did find was ...

Now a new and perhaps even more vexing concern has emerged: Highway sinkholes stemming from long-abandoned mines. Three sinkholes have opened up along I-80 in Wharton since late December.

A little over a year ago, James over at Low-Buck Garage bought himself part of an abandoned silver mine out in the hinterlands of New Mexico to store his assorted projects, equipment, and antique ...

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

A new law decades in the making could finally lead to the cleanup of some of the thousands of abandoned mines in Colorado that leak toxic metals and acid into the headwaters of the rivers that ...

President Joe Biden recently signed a bipartisan bill aimed at cleaning up abandoned mines around the country, including those in Arizona. Senator Mark Kelly was among three senators who created ...

For the last month, Orion‘s Poetry Editor Hannah Fries has been in Lake City, Colorado, working with the Colorado Art Ranch to envision a new life for an abandoned silver mine. Read the first of ...

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 ...