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 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.

It’s estimated, for example, that there are 106,000 such mines in Nevada. About 100 persist in New Hampshire. While most of the abandoned mines in our state are not producing significant ...