15 abandoned mine clean-ups are in the works. Will they be in Nevada?
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 ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal1y
All the ways a mine can kill you: Nevada’s abandoned mines pose endless risks
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 ...
The Scientist2y
A World of Wildlife in Abandoned Mines
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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine10mon
Nevada’s Living and Abandoned Ghost Towns
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 ...
THE WEEK3mon
Abandoned mines pose hidden safety and environmental risks
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 ...
Star Tribune4mon
Underground voids from abandoned mines pose danger to people and property when land collapses
Swaths of Pennsylvania and many other states are honeycombed with old, unstable mines that can cause the earth to suddenly give way and threaten people and property. That's what searchers in ...