A deep hole opened up Sunday at a 19th century abandoned iron ore mine along Old Route 100 near Barto Road in Washington Township, officials said Tuesday. The hole, about 25 feet wide and most like… ...

Amateur prospector John Waddell realizes he's lucky to be alive after surviving a two-day ordeal at the bottom of an old abandoned mine shaft in the Arizona desert. The 60-year-old Waddell broke ...

2 men need rescue from abandoned mine in remote California desert By Sam Mauhay-Moore , National Parks Reporter April 26, 2025 A warning sign at the Colosseum Mine in San Bernardino County, Calif ...

PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona prospector realizes he's lucky to be alive after surviving nearly three days at the bottom of an old abandoned gold mine shaft in the Arizona desert and staring down ...

EUREKA — Utah mining crews recently completed a project that closed off dozens of abandoned mines across southwestern Utah County, including a mine shaft where the bodies of a Utah couple were ...

Two such men were pulled uninjured from an abandoned, 250-foot vertical mineshaft near Twentynine Palms on Saturday, April 19, by San Bernardino County Fire Department crews that are trained to ...

State and county officials plan to begin work April 2 to back-fill several dozen abandoned mine shafts peppering the future park site on county-owned land west of Fort Apache and Warm Springs roads.