Watch out for that bat behind you,” warned Luca Messina, a civil engineer who moonlights as a speleo-archaeologist with ...

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 ...

The highway sinkholes were caused by long-forgotten mine shafts crumbling beneath the surface ... (See an interactive map of abandoned mine locations below.) “They’re everywhere,” Timothy ...

I was told that he had died as a result of gassing." Pedro had gone to the mine shaft with his young brother to collect a shovel and other equipment. His younger brother was the first to be ...

Jeremy Workman’s documentary looks back at a project that may sound like a joke but had serious underpinnings. By Alissa Wilkinson Jason Statham plays a construction worker who’s as deft at ...

I was told that he had died as a result of gassing.” Pedro had gone to the mine shaft with his young brother to collect a shovel and other equipment. His younger brother was the first to be lowered ...