New Jersey is home to 600 of the nation's 500,000 abandoned mines, yet the danger they pose looms large in the state's north.

Some shafts ... life. "To me it was just normal," said Wayne Mann, who grew up in Ringwood's mining district. "We played around the holes, and I really didn't think twice about it." The abandoned ...

Dan Lopez is a modern-day explorer who has focused his attention on the hundreds of abandoned mines hidden well below New ...

Morris County is filled with over 100 abandoned underground mines, most located in the northwestern half of the county, with ore consisting of mostly magnetite, mica and graphite, according to a ...

3. Pollard seemingly fell into the hole which led to an abandoned mining shaft, and her remains were found days later. Pennsylvania, like other Appalachian states, has many abandoned mines ...

Route 80 sinkhole:Sinkhole in Wharton caused by abandoned mine shaft The ovoid depression is ... waste and sinkholes that are now part of life. "To me it was just normal," said Wayne Mann ...

Morris County has hundreds of abandoned mines Morris County is filled with over 100 abandoned underground mines, most located in the northwestern half of the county, with ore consisting of mostly ...

Picture: AFP JOHANNESBURG - Seven more illegal miners have resurfaced from an abandoned mine in Stilfontein on Friday. Six of the zama zamas resurfaced from shaft 10 at the old Buffelsfontein Gold ...