A long-abandoned mine caused a sinkhole on I-80 last month, highlighting the dangers lurking just beneath the surface across ...

Abandoned mines in New Jersey ...

The New Jersey Department of Environmental now has a substantial collection of data online about the abandoned mines in the state, last updated in 2011. For the abandoned mines in Ringwood ...

The 600 mines of northern New Jersey region represent just a fraction of the nation's 500,000 abandoned ones, according to the the Bureau of Land Management. Still, area officials and experts ...

WHARTON, N.J. -- A sinkhole that cratered a section of I-80 in New Jersey was caused by an abandoned mineshaft collapsing ... There was a whole mining world here and those shafts are still ...

The collapse of an abandoned mineshaft created a giant sinkhole that took out the shoulder and right lane of I-80 east in Morris County, New Jersey ... three abandoned mines next to I-80 in ...

The highway's guardrail still hung suspended in the air across the gaping 40-foot-wide (12-meter) hole, which opened up when ...

which opened up when an abandoned mine collapsed under the highway's right shoulder Thursday morning, according to the New Jersey Department of Transportation.

Hidden underground danger:North Jersey's 600 abandoned mines New Jersey is susceptible to the effects of sinkholes and subsidence, or the sinking of the ground, primarily in the northern region of ...