Cleaning up Ohio's abandoned coal mines: What's being done. The Federal Mine Reclamation Fund began in 1977, when Congress set aside a pot of money to restore natural habitats around unused mines.

There are hundreds of thousands of acres of abandoned coal mine land across the state. The Ohio Division of Mineral Resources Management estimates between 350,000 and 450,000 acres need some degree of ...

There could be hundreds, maybe even thousands, of old mines in the state that were abandoned in the 200 year history of mining in the state, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources announced earlier this year it is offering $17 million to reclaim and revitalize dangerous abandoned mines.

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources has produced a full-color map that shows the locations of abandoned mines (pdf). Ohio has thousands of historic abandoned mines, some dating to the 1800s.

Pictured, two miners at Willows Grove Mine, Ohio, May 1946. CO/AP. ... Ben McCament, abandoned mine land program manager at the ODNR, says that between 1999 and 2018, ...

Ohio's Abandoned Mine Land Inventory System documented more than 4,300 abandoned underground mines a decade ago. But officials also say there are probably more, since many mines were started ...

Abandoned mines across Ohio have polluted streams and creeks for decades, turning waterways orange and lacing them with sulfuric acid, dissolved metals and toxic sediments.

Abandoned mine land in Ohio gets a new purpose by: Justin Dennis. Posted: Sep 30, 2022 / 04:33 PM EDT. Updated: Sep 30, 2022 / 04:34 PM EDT (Ohio Department of Natural Resources) ...

Two studies released Wednesday by the Ohio River Valley Institute say tens of thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in investment could be sent to the four-state Appalachian region to clean up ...

The Biden Administration will give Ohio $46.4 million this year to help address the state's thousands of abandoned mines. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland was in Cincinnati Wednesday to announce ...