A mining company is exploring the possibility of building a new mine underneath a wilderness area in northwest Montana.

The ground in Mount Isa usually shakes twice a day with mine blasts, but today silence signals the end of era.

We visited an illegal mine shaft on Snake road in Brakpan, where the miners are literally entering underneath the road.

Miners in northeastern Pennsylvania are urging safety after a man was rescued from an abandoned mine shaft in Luzerne County over the weekend.

A former mine worker, Marie once spent her days sorting and washing cobalt to survive. Today, she's a trained poultry farmer. "I used to collect and wash minerals to sell them," she sighs.

A dog has been rescued and is back home after falling about 100 feet down an old mine shaft in Mohave County.

The Mohave County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue team successfully saved a dog that had fallen about 100 feet down a mine shaft in Arizona on Monday.

A dog fell 100 feet into an Arizona mine shaft near White Hills. Rescuers saved the uninjured dog using a rope system, reuniting it with its owner.

Sinkholes that closed Interstate 80 in both directions in Wharton, New Jersey, were likely caused by collapsing iron mine shafts. Wharton's history is broadly defined by the once-thriving iron ...