After a five-year fight, a US District Court for the District of Arizona granted a temporary restraining order to block a lithium drilling operation that was threatening their land and one of their ...

DNA obtained from the remains of a woman found dead in an abandoned mineshaft in the Mojave Desert in 1976 sent retired ... The newspaper reported the old mine was so remote it took investigators ...

In the 1800s, dozens of small mining towns—now abandoned—were built here and there in the desert, along with a ... It included a map, which showed the short distances between the open pit ...

Scattered across Arizona are nearly 200,000 abandoned mines. Many of them sit quietly in Mohave County, tucked into hills and valleys outside Lake Havasu City. They don’t make headlines. Most ...

New Jersey has nearly 600 abandoned mines, according to state officials. (See an interactive map of abandoned mine locations below.) “They’re everywhere,” Timothy Rack, safety and compliance ...

"This action puts us on a path towards destruction of America’s treasured landscapes and weakening the integrity of the Park Service in favor of the possibility of critical minerals” -- NPCA Californi ...

Arizona is giving researchers more time to study the risks from thousands of old, abandoned mines across the state.

A company with rights to a mine within Mojave National Preserve in California has received approval from the U.S. Bureau of ...

More than 85% of the state's abandoned mines excavated iron-bearing magnetite ore from a wide band of hard rock formations known as the Highlands Region. Story continues below map of abandoned ...