In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...

Miners once lived and worked in Humberstone saltpeter works. Now it's a ghost town and UNESCO World Heritage Site. Photos ...

Kennicott in Alaska is a copper mining town which once provided work and a community to hundreds of residents ... While ...

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

South African authorities have ome under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have ...

Once bustling with the chatter of miners and the clinking of pickaxes, Colorado's abandoned mining towns stand today as ...

South African authorities have for years struggled to stop groups of miners from going into some of the gold-rich country's 6 ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa ... that there are about 6,000 abandoned mines and that close to $1 billion is lost annually in revenue due to illicit mining. What's happening now?

An abandoned European town - likened to Machu Picchu - lies in France, where the remains of a mining site, including abandoned buildings and canteens, are housed.

There's a town in northern Mexico called Ojuela that's got a rich history of valuable mining industry, but nowadays is largely deserted. But it's getting a new, second life thanks to a t ...