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, ...

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 ...

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

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 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) ...

Reasons to be Cheerful explains how "gravity batteries" are giving former mines a second life—while offering an economic and environmental boost to communities once reliant on coal.

Abandoned mines have been located in nearly half of Ohio’s 88 counties. The first commercial extraction of coal was recorded in 1800, but many mines existed prior to mining reporting laws were ...

Southeast Ohio’s history of coal mining has left the region with many environmental dangers. The Ohio Department of Natural ...

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 ...

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, ...