Swaths of Pennsylvania and many other states are honeycombed with old, unstable mines that can cause the earth to suddenly give way and threaten people and property.

Organizations would be allowed to step in and clean up long-abandoned mines without fear of the legal liability that could be attached to their now-absent owners.

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In Pennsylvania, where mining dates to the late 1700s, coal was mined in almost half of the state's 67 counties and there are at least 5,000 abandoned underground mines, leaving behind hazards ...

Story continues below map of abandoned mines in New Jersey. The Mount Pleasant Mine is under Route 80. All eyes recently have been on one mine in particular: Mount Pleasant Mine.

(See an interactive map of abandoned mine locations below.) “They’re everywhere,” Timothy Rack, safety and compliance manager for the Morris County Parks Commission, told NJ Advance Media in ...

The recent sinkholes on I-80 were caused by long-abandoned mines. See the map showing hundreds of closed New Jersey mines. Skip to Article. Set weather. Back To Main Menu Close. Quick Look- ...

“A lot of these mines are from the early 1900s. There was just no tracking of them,” said John Barber, who runs BLMs Oregon and Washington Abandoned Mine Lands Program.

In November 1963, a 15-year-old boy was playing with two friends in Ringwood in Passaic County when he fell an estimated 100 feet into an abandoned iron mine and was buried under a series of cave ...

A state Department of Environmental Protection map shows three abandoned mines next to the I-80 sinkhole location. That the I ...

The Good Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act, signed into law by President Joe Biden on Dec. 19, is the first step in removing burdensome legal liabilities for groups and state ...