Since 1961, as far back as state records go, 19 people have died in abandoned mines, and more have been injured. On Friday, Lee, along with the Nevada Division of Minerals and the nonprofit Trout ...

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 ...

It doesn’t take much for a century-old mine shaft to cave in around you. Or for the mercury, lead or arsenic leftovers to leech into the Silver State’s already strained groundwater supply.

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 ...