Hundreds of people have died or were injured at abandoned mine sites. States and tribes want Congress to fund cleanups.

Beneath parts of the Appalachian Mountains, thousands of mine shafts still descend deep into the earth. Some of these vertical passages drop more than 1,000 feet, connecting long corridors carved ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Five miners were trapped deep underground at a South African diamond mine after a mudslide flooded a shaft ...

Arizona dog rescued from deep mine shaft The Mohave County Sheriff's Office Search & Rescue team saved a dog named Hailey who fell 100 feet down an old mine shaft. Authorities, who used a specialized ...

Two kayakers investigating strange openings in a hillside entered an abandoned limestone mine and began paddling through its flooded tunnels. Deep inside the cavern they discovered a massive ...

The FBI and Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation are searching a 35-foot mine shaft in rural Cherokee County for the remains of two teens missing for over 26 years, with the Cherokee Nation ...

June 3 (UPI) --Firefighters in Australia came to the rescue of a wayward dog who found his way into a 26-foot-deep mine shaft. The Country Fire Authority in Victoria said a Labrador named Ted wandered ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Five miners were trapped deep underground at a South African diamond mine after a mudslide flooded a shaft they were working in, mine officials and a labor union said Thursday. The ...