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

White Pine and Eureka counties are a little far for a day trip to explore ghost towns, but Lincoln County, just over the border past Modena on state Route 56 west of Cedar City, has 16 ghost towns ...

15 abandoned mine clean-ups are in the works. Here’s how Nevada may benefit It took 25 years for Congress to authorize nonprofits to clean up abandoned mines without the risk of tall fines.