prospectors tried to get rich off of mining the silver. But by the 1930s, the mine was pretty much picked through and ultimately abandoned. The land around the mine became a park called Silver ...

The sinkhole on Route 80 is over one of the 400 mines active during the Revolutionary War but it's hard to accurately ...

Abandoned mines across the Silver State With a nickname like the Silver State, it’s little wonder that Nevada’s mining lore dates back to even before the state joined the union in 1864.