For decades, federal rules punished good Samaritans who tried to tackle toxic mine pollution. A new program removes barriers ...

U.S. Sen. Max Baucus of Montana took to the floor of the Senate to introduce a bill intended to help clean up abandoned and ...

At the center of Helena is Last Chance Gulch, where gold ... U.S.” The new federal law is intended to speed up local government, tribal and nonprofit efforts to clean up abandoned mining ...

In the small town of Stilfontein, some 90 miles from the city of Johannesburg, South Africa, hundreds, possibly thousands, of ...

Do you love the outdoors and creepy local history? Check out this abandoned miner's town located just a few miles from Seattle in Granite Falls, Washington!

Barrick Gold Corp. is pursuing international arbitration to resolve a monthslong dispute with Mali’s government over its gold mine in the ... 4% as of 9:39 a.m. in New York.

A bigger clampdown looks set to have far-reaching ramifications for supply chains feeding American defense and chip-making ...