A rural Nevada gold miner has filed a lawsuit that claims he was injured when 900 pounds of equipment fell on him.

A federal court ruled mining claims don’t guarantee access to adjacent federal land that lacks valuable minerals.

Most people blast past Boulder City, but it built the Hoover Dam — and it’s still frozen in time. From here to the Grand Canyon, this video stops at 11 spots that include a ghost gas station in ...

Just a short drive from Reno, Virginia City stands as a testament to Nevada’s silver-rich past, where wooden boardwalks and Victorian architecture create a scene so perfect you’ll wonder if you’ve ...

Rise Gold's long delayed legal battle to win vested rights claims for the Idaho-Maryland Mine is headed for a first day in ...

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 ...

The Rush Township supervisors approved a conditional use permit this week for a solar project that would repurpose nearly 2,000 acres of abandoned strip coal mining land. Contingent on the approval of ...

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 ...

Barrick Mining Corp.’s proposal to hive off its US assets from its sprawling portfolio in riskier countries will pique the interest of rival miners, according to analysts. A separate company housing ...

A 54-year-old hiker’s fatal fall into an abandoned mine shaft near Ouray last month highlights a broader danger left behind by Colorado’s rich mining history: more than 23,000 inactive mining sites, ...