Nevada’s Division of Minerals has released its 2024 Abandoned Mine Lands (AML) Physical Hazard Report, showing both progress ...

Nevada's mining booms have left the Silver State with a plentiful supply of ghost towns. Here's a list of towns within a ...

Nevada is home to over 600 ghost towns, many of which are the remnants of the gold rush era of the 1800s and 1900s. Some of these ghost towns are well known, like Rhyolite, but others are just ...

These Five Former Boomtowns Invite You To Step Into the State’s Mining History On the northern edge of the Mojave Desert sits the remnants of a former boomtown. There, visitors are greeted by the ...

Dozens of people get injured or die in the U.S. every year because they don’t follow this simple advice: Stay out of abandoned and active mines and surrounding lands. Abandoned mines are not history ...

When Emmanuel Siyabonga was a boy, he wasn't fussy about the type of job he wanted when he grew up. Other boys dreamed of being footballers, doctors, soldiers. All Siyabonga wanted, he says, was a job ...