Route 80 sinkholes put a spotlight on New Jersey's 588 abandoned mines
The Sterling Mine, the last operating mine in New Jersey, suspended large-scale commercial mining operations in 1986. Since ...
News 12 New Jersey10d
What’s under the I-80 sinkholes? A look inside a preserved New Jersey mine
There are more than 400 abandoned mines across New Jersey. At one point, they were essential to the state economy.
The Mountain Mail6d
Trout Unlimited reclaims abandoned mines to prevent pollution
A large source of Colorado’s water pollution is abandoned mine waste, which Salidan Jason Willis, director of Trout Unlimited ...
Grist6d
Why Biden and Trump both support this federal mineral mapping project
In partnership with state geological surveys, Earth MRI is now in the process of dispatching researchers to abandoned mine sites to collect samples of waste rock that can be analyzed in the lab to ...
WESA29d
Trump's federal funding freeze brought some abandoned mine cleanup in Pa. to a standstill
Williams said the funding from the infrastructure law was so important because it is very expensive to clean up the thousands of abandoned mine sites in Pennsylvania. The law allocated $244 ...
WVVA11d
$11 million funding for abandoned mine revitalization announced in Virginia
US Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) and Governor Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) have announced funding with the hopes to breathe new ...
New River Valley News11d
$11 Million for Abandoned Mine Land Revitalization
Governor Glenn Youngkin and Congressman Morgan Griffith announced today that $11 million in federal funding is now available to drive economic development in ...
The Scranton Times-Tribune18d
Taylor, DEP to use grant funding to remove fire-damaged, century-old mine building
Removing the building will “eliminate the public health and safety hazards associated with unreclaimed abandoned mine sites,” according to the notice. The project cost is $265,620; it is an ...