A recent tragedy in Colorado wasn't an anomaly. From drowning in quarries to stumbling into open pits, hundreds have died in ...

A 54-year-old hiker’s fatal fall into an abandoned mine shaft near Ouray last month highlights a broader danger left behind ...

Garnet, Montana, is one of the best ghost towns in the West, and it offers a chance to see what life was like in a 19th-century mining town. Once home to 1,000 residents and 13 saloons, Garnet was ...

DENVER (KDVR) — A ski-in, ski-out home with pieces of an abandoned Colorado mine is for sale in Crested Butte, with anything from reclaimed doors to pieces of gold-flecked granite in the foundation.

Driving along Interstate 70 through the Rocky Mountains is a bit like journeying into another era. Beyond the mountain scenery, the first thing you'll notice are the countless rusted mining ...

Many of these once-thriving communities were deserted due to economic collapse, natural calamity, or shifts in industry.

A tour guide killed at a former Colorado gold mine last year fell out of a crowded elevator taking tourists below ground after apparently not latching its door closed, documents obtained by The ...

BILLINGS, Mont. — Site investigations and some cleanup work at 10 polluted mining complexes in four states were suspended because of conditions similar to those that led to a massive wastewater ...

A 54-year-old hiker’s fatal fall into an abandoned mine shaft near Ouray last month highlights a broader danger left behind ...

DENVER — A tour guide killed at a former Colorado gold mine last year fell out of a crowded elevator taking tourists below ground after apparently not latching its door closed, documents obtained by ...