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 ...

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

With little attention in the media, except in a few Western states, former President Joe Biden on Dec. 19 signed the Good Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act. It ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...