The ghosts of the Silver State’s mining roots aren ... ensure significant progress in our efforts to clean up abandoned mines in Nevada and across the United States,” the Republican governor ...

Nevada has an estimated 200,000 abandoned mines. As many as 400,000 abandoned mines are scattered throughout the West.

President Joe Biden signed the Good Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act into law on Wednesday to clean up the Silver State ... overdue clean up.” Nevada has the most abandoned ...