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 ...

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 ...

These Five Former Boomtowns Invite You To Step Into the State’s Mining History On the northern edge of the Mojave ... once one of Nevada’s most prosperous mining towns. But like many such ...

The recent sinkholes on I-80 were caused by long-abandoned mines. See the map showing hundreds of closed New Jersey mines.

The Thacker Pass lithium mine in northern Nevada is the largest known lithium deposit in the United States and was approved by the Bureau of Land Management in 2021. That wasn’t without outcry ...

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 ... structures are all that’s left of Rhyolite, once one of Nevada’s most prosperous mining towns. But like many such places, this “overnight ...