Nevada has an estimated 200,000 abandoned mines. As many as 400,000 abandoned mines are scattered throughout the West. In a rare display of rationality this month, President Joe Biden signed new ...

Nevada has the most abandoned mines of any state in the country. Since 1961, 19 people have died in these mine sites and 24 people have been injured, according to state records. “Because of ...

The bill which finally made it to President Biden’s desk for his signature on Dec. 17, called the Good Samaritan Remediation ...

But since shuttering operations decades ago, the mine has been an environmental hazard, with abandoned tunnels and tailings piles leaching arsenic and other heavy metals into nearby waterways.