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 ...

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 ...

The state Department of Environmental Protection lists 588 abandoned mines in its database ... There are also the Peter's and Cannon mines in northern Ringwood, where Ford Motor Co.