A mudslide struck the Acupan community in Barangay Virac, Itogon town, Benguet on Friday (July 4), prompting local ...

Most of the mining towns in the area were just tent camps or shanty towns that wouldn’t last more than a year or two. In Garnet, there was a grocery store, post office, a schoolhouse and ...

Coal-mining towns get less than their proportionate share of state public-health services; in half the towns the water supply is not adequately inspected for freedom from pollution.

The tiny mining town is hidden just off Blewett Pass on U.S. Highway 97. Today, each building looks like it’s come right out of the 1890s: log exteriors, wooden windows and fences.

Caribou, Colorado, was once a thriving mining town about an hour from Denver. At its peak, it had 3,000 residents, 100 houses, a three-story hotel, and three saloons. After poor management of the ...

One last mining town for the list, Bodie in Okanogan County was established around the late 1880s. Gold found in the area kept its population up for some time.