Since 1961, as far back as state records go, 19 people have died in abandoned mines, and more have been injured. On Friday, Lee, along with the Nevada Division of Minerals and the nonprofit Trout ...

The remnants of Nevada’s abandoned boomtowns and settlements are ... concentrated in central and northern parts of Nevada where mining was more abundant in the late 1800s and early 1900s ...

In Pennsylvania, there are at least "5,000 abandoned underground mines." Many more states, including others in Appalachia, ...

CARSON CITY - Sen. Harry Reid says Nevada should accept the Environmental Protection Agency’s help cleaning up an abandoned copper mine near Yerington. Reid sent a letter to the EPA’s regional ...

This shift toward renewable storage in abandoned mines is supported by research from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). Their findings suggest that using Underground ...