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The Green Tree facility provides and stores, digitally and in microfilm (aperture cards), [4] over 182,000 maps of abandoned mines. This repository contains maps of mine workings from the 1790s to the present day. [5] It serves as a point of reference for mine maps and other information for both surface and underground mines throughout the ...
This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Ohio. West entrance of the Moonville tunnel in Moonville, Ohio Intersection of Black Run Road and Shady Glen Road in Knockemstiff, Ohio Ai (Fulton County) - partially abandoned ghost city
In 2013, the mine, which remained abandoned for over 40 years began collapsing as water dissolved some of the underground gypsum rock, primarily calcium sulfate, resulting in depressions and sinkholes in the area. From 2013 to 2015, the Ohio Department of Transportation paid The Beaver Excavating Company USD $20,668,621.89 to fill the mine with ...
Old mines pose myriad dangers, with 381 people killed and 152 injured at abandoned mine sites nationwide between 2000 and 2013, according to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. Victims can fall into hidden shafts, get lost in underground tunnels or perish from poisonous gases present in many old coal mines.
The lawsuit says the United States Gypsum Co., on Sandusky Bay, failed to maintain underground mines that caused dangerous sinkholes near State Route 2, costing the Ohio Department of ...
West entrance of the Moonville tunnel Location of Moonville, Ohio. Moonville is a ghost town in southeastern Brown Township, Vinton County, Ohio, United States.Little remains of this former mining community except a few foundations, a cemetery, and an abandoned railroad tunnel which is the subject of numerous ghost stories.
In 2021, the state said it documented 20,000 orphan wells in a report to the Interior Department. The Wayne National Forest is home to at least 200 abandoned oil and gas wells in southeast Ohio ...
Hilton mine (originally the Ohio mine) - Greenland; Hogan mine - Delaware, Keweenaw County; Houghton Exploration prospect - Superior; Hudson mine (originally the Eureka mine) - Norwich, Ontonagon County; Humboldt mine - Copper Falls, Keweenaw County; Huron mine (originally the Houghton mine) - Hurontown, Houghton County