On Friday, Lee, along with the Nevada Division of Minerals and the nonprofit Trout Unlimited, celebrated the law’s signing at ...

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 ...

Thousands of abandoned mines remain scattered across these vast landscapes ... This opinion is echoed by Gretchen Baker, a cave specialist and ecologist at Great Basin National Park in Nevada who was ...

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 ...

These fragmented structures are all that’s left of Rhyolite, once one of Nevada’s most prosperous ... however. Some were abandoned and left to the desert, all evidence of any community now ...

Scattered across the United States, hundreds of thousands of abandoned mines scar the earth ... said Simon Jowitt, who directs the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology and is Earth MRI’s primary point ...