1.   Endless pollution from deep within a mountain side Iron Mountain is riddled with abandoned copper mines.

2.   The abandoned mines would fill with water contaminated with iron, acids and chlorides which could seep through ground waters affecting rivers.

3.   Water rising through abandoned mines could pollute rivers, kill wildlife and contaminate drinking water.

4.   A National Center for Cool and Cold Water Aquaculture that would study whether fish can be raised on farms and in abandoned mines in West Virginia.

5.   Abandoned mines perforate the hills and tell of short but acute prosperity.

6.   But a search for sourdoughs turns up a lot of abandoned mines and lonely hillsides.

7.   In response, the North American Bats and Mines Project, a national initiative to seal abandoned mines with bat-friendly gates, has been gaining momentum.

8.   In the United States, a common cause of such fires has been the burning of trash dumped into abandoned mines.

9.   In unsuccessful searches, deputies have looked for the bodies in the septic tank at the Anthony home as well as in abandoned mines nearby.