Nevada is home to more than 300,000 abandoned mines — mines that can kill you in an almost unimaginable number of ways. But those mines from Nevada’s olden days are attracting a modern-day ...

Nevada, with the most abandoned mines of any state in the nation, is likely to benefit from at least a few of the 15 proposed cleanups, said Rob Ghiglieri, administrator of the state Division of ...

The remnants of Nevada’s abandoned boomtowns and settlements are scattered across the desert, if you know where to look.

In Pennsylvania, there are at least "5,000 abandoned underground mines." Many more states, including others in Appalachia, plus Nevada and California, are also dotted with them. As the general ...

Some were abandoned and left to the desert ... Blackburn struck gold in the western Great Basin Desert in 1849, Nevada’s mining history began. Ten years later, the Comstock Lode—one of ...

But the old mines also left behind a legacy of trouble for today’s Westerners. Abandoned mines dot the Western landscape, polluting the region’s streams with acid mine drainage and connecting the ...