Lai Chi Wo is one of Hing Kong’s oldest settlements — and one of its most biodiverse. Abandoned in the last century, it became a ghost town. Now, a project is bringing in new residents, and promoting ...

Marvel was once a thriving coal mining community in Bibb County, home to three Roden Coal Co. shafts and a small village for ...

Should I Convert $130,000 Per Year to a Roth to Avoid RMDs? I'm 59 With $1.3 Million in a 401(k) Biden commutes life sentence of Leonard Peltier, Native American activist imprisoned for almost 50 ...

Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...

While you’re there, you can take a tour that allows visitors to explore the abandoned ... a sister village to Kennicott. Between the two areas, you can find old mining buildings that look ...

South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have been trapped deep in an abandoned gold mine for months.

The pilot program allows nonprofits, state agencies and others to clean up abandoned mine sites without the burdensome level of liability. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has 180 days to ...

The government estimates that there are about 6,000 abandoned mines and that close to $1 billion is lost annually in revenue due to illicit mining. A community-led rescue effort began bringing ...

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