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 ...

WASHINGTON (KOLO) - The Biden Administration is investing $3.7 million to allow states to clean up abandoned hardrock mines. According to the Nevada Division of Minerals, such abandoned mines can ...

Some were abandoned and left to the desert ... Blackburn struck gold in the western Great Basin Desert in 1849, Nevada’s mining history began. Ten years later, the Comstock Lode—one of ...

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 ...