GIRARDVILLE — Divers searched an abandoned strip mine for a missing person, authorities reported Tuesday afternoon. What began around as a rescue mission around 2:15 p.m. evolved into a recovery ...

Divers searched an abandoned strip mine Tuesday in Schuylkill County for a missing person, authorities said. What began as a rescue mission around 2:15 p.m. evolved into a recovery mission ...

Flat land is hard to come by in the mountainous central Appalachian region, and much of the development has occurred on ridges flattened by coal strip ... s regional Abandoned Mine Land Program ...

Absolutely." Kentucky, particularly the eastern mountains, are littered with abandoned coal mines. Many are a result of strip mining or mountaintop removal mining, the latter a method in which ...

An aerial view of a former ... where the Kings Mountain Mine is located, was once the world's largest lithium-producing region. Opened in the 1950s, the mine was abandoned in the 1980s when ...

Police in Manchester Township issued over 100 summonses over the weekend after finding hundreds of people partying at an abandoned strip mine on private property. Police say it's an ongoing issue.

The Iowa Department of Agriculture embarked this month on the reclamation of 162 acres of abandoned mine land ... has owned since the 1950s after a strip-mining company left the area.