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 ...

On the northern edge of the Mojave Desert sits the ... These fragmented structures are all that’s left of Rhyolite, once one of Nevada’s most prosperous mining towns. But like many such ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...