Nevada is home to more than 300,000 abandoned mines — mines that can kill you in an almost unimaginable number of ways.

But she called Nevada County a "hotbed" for those mines. The Conservancy has awarded a $176,000 grant to the Tahoe National Forest for a pilot project to clean up abandoned mine sites in Nevada ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has asked Gov. Brian Sandoval to formally respond by March 29 to a proposed Superfund listing to allow for the cleanup of the Anaconda Copper Mine site ...

Dec. 7 (UPI) --Emergency responders in Nevada came to the rescue of a wild donkey that wandered into an abandoned mine and became trapped in a 10-foot hole. The Nye County Sheriff's Office said in ...

As the standoff over a proposed reopening of the San Juan Ridge Mine continues, some people are pushing for a Nevada County-wide rethinking of potential alternative uses for abandoned hydraulic mining ...

YERINGTON - Lyon County commissioners on Thursday will be asked to authorize filling an abandoned Silver City mine shaft. Already ranked by the Division of Minerals as "high" hazard by its abandoned ...

Wold said the vested right allows the property owner to keep using their property and said that the intent to mine was never abandoned. "When Nevada county adopted a zoning code in 1954, the U.S ...

A 15-year-old teenager and two dogs were rescued from an abandoned well shaft on Saturday, according to the Nevada County Consolidated Fire District.

The state Commission on Mineral Resources has logged 12 deaths -- three of them in Clark County -- and 12 injuries in Nevada's 165,000 abandoned mines since 1971.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congress will take up the issue of Nevada's abandoned mines when the House Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources conducts a hearing on the Abandoned Mine ...

(FOX40.COM) — The Nevada County Board of Supervisors voted against reopening a Grass Valley gold mine Thursday. A special Wednesday hearing of the Nevada County Board of Supervisors lasted se… ...

Nevada and Clark County leaders recently approved a plan to fill approximately 40 abandoned mines in the area, because the inner workings are unsecured creating a dangerous situation for the ...