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 ...

About half a million abandoned mines lie untouched across America, polluting waterways and posing a threat to human safety. Nevada has the most of any state with about 200,000, according to the ...

With little attention in the media, except in a few Western states, former President Joe Biden on Dec. 19 signed the Good ...

Image Fraga and Donnelly mapping out areas of proposed lithium mines. The region’s distinctive geography and geology make Nevada and its borderlands a hot spot for lithium projects.Credit ...

It’s estimated, for example, that there are 106,000 such mines in Nevada and 8,800 in Idaho. About 100 persist in New Hampshire. While most of the abandoned mines in New Hampshire are not producing ...

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 ...

The bill which finally made it to President Biden’s desk for his signature on Dec. 17, called the Good Samaritan Remediation ...

For more than a century, abandoned mines such as the Triumph Mine in central Idaho have scarred the American West, leaking toxic heavy metals into waterways and threatening communities and ecosystems.

"Abandoned mines get a bad rep," Lopez said. "They are historic sites. The dangerous ones are in Arizona and Nevada. It's a shame the state is reclaiming them, burying them." This subterranean ...