The pristine white snowpack blanketing the Rocky Mountains may look pure, but a new study reveals it carries an invisible ...

As the second-largest US state and the site of its most famous gold rush, there is a significant collection of ghost towns in ...

Explore seven of the most fascinating abandoned mines in Texas and learn a bit about their history, location, and eerie allure. This video takes you through old mining sites that once powered local ...

Karen Budd-Falen, the No. 3 at the Interior Department, didn’t disclose a $3.5 million water-rights contract between her husband and the developers of a Nevada mine, records show. By Lisa Friedman A ...

Now that high school basketball teams have several games under their belts, we can start to get a feel for who the top teams are around Northern Nevada. With school on winter break for two weeks, many ...

RENO — The museum inside the University of Nevada, Reno’s Mackay School of Mines is a living scrapbook of the mining industry that gave the Silver State its name. Three floors and rows of glass cases ...

New Jersey lawmakers are moving to plug the state’s most dangerous abandoned mines, the same hidden hazards blamed for sinkholes that swallowed sections of I-80 earlier this year, under a bill that ...

New Mexico's Environment Department plans to finish cleaning up at least one abandoned uranium mine by next summer, and has begun site evaluations at 15 uranium mine and mill sites in the northwest ...

A Nevada County man was rescued by a team of firefighters early Saturday after falling down an abandoned mine shaft while searching for a lost dog late Friday, said Nevada County Consolidated Fire ...

A Nevada County man was rescued by a team of firefighters early Saturday after falling down an abandoned mine shaft while searching for a lost dog late Friday, said Nevada County Consolidated Fire ...