Spread This NewsBy Staff Reporter A SOMBRE atmosphere has engulfed a gold mine in Chinhoyi after an employee working about ...

A study shows that the shafts of abandoned mines could serve as energy-storing gravity batteries. Just because a mine has been exhausted of its ore, that doesn't necessarily mean it has no value.

Even if a sinkhole isn't involved, people who wander into mines "can drown in flooded shafts, get lost in underground tunnels or perish from poisonous gases present in many old coal mines." ...

The facility's high-tech science experiments are kept inside a massive historic structure of 370 miles of tunnels and shafts that was once North America's deepest gold mine. The Yates Shaft is one of ...