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The Dark History of Abandoned Mines
In the United States, abandoned mines still hide across deserts, mountains, forests, and public land: open shafts, flooded pits, collapsed tunnels, and unstable ground left behind by gold rushes, hard-rock mining, and coal extraction. In this episode, we trace the dark history of abandoned mines from California and Nevada to Colorado and Appalachia, and ask a harder question beneath it all: when people vanish in remote country, how often is the answer under their feet?
From Joshua Tree and Twentynine Palms to Nevada and West Virginia, this episode follows real deaths, disappearances, and recoveries tied to old mine country while looking at the larger hazard footprint still spread across the United States. It’s a story about ghost landscapes, forgotten industry, and the deadly holes America never really closed.
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Links:
timeandtalespodcast.com
instagram.com/timeandtalespodcast
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Sources
Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2024 NCIC Missing and Unidentified Person Statistics
Travis W. Heggie, “Dead Men Walking: Search and Rescue in U.S. National Parks”
United States Bureau of Land Management, Abandoned Mine Lands
United States Bureau of Land Management, AML Dangers
California Legislative Analyst’s Office, Improving California’s Response to the Environmental and Safety Hazards Caused by Abandoned Mines
Nevada Division of Minerals, Nevada Abandoned Mine Lands Report 2012
U.S. Government Accountability Office, Abandoned Mine Land: Opportunities Exist to Improve Support for Economic Development and Facilities Planning in Coal Communities, GAO-24-106680
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By LM Riviere + CJ PrimeIn the United States, abandoned mines still hide across deserts, mountains, forests, and public land: open shafts, flooded pits, collapsed tunnels, and unstable ground left behind by gold rushes, hard-rock mining, and coal extraction. In this episode, we trace the dark history of abandoned mines from California and Nevada to Colorado and Appalachia, and ask a harder question beneath it all: when people vanish in remote country, how often is the answer under their feet?
From Joshua Tree and Twentynine Palms to Nevada and West Virginia, this episode follows real deaths, disappearances, and recoveries tied to old mine country while looking at the larger hazard footprint still spread across the United States. It’s a story about ghost landscapes, forgotten industry, and the deadly holes America never really closed.
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Links:
timeandtalespodcast.com
instagram.com/timeandtalespodcast
.................................................................
Sources
Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2024 NCIC Missing and Unidentified Person Statistics
Travis W. Heggie, “Dead Men Walking: Search and Rescue in U.S. National Parks”
United States Bureau of Land Management, Abandoned Mine Lands
United States Bureau of Land Management, AML Dangers
California Legislative Analyst’s Office, Improving California’s Response to the Environmental and Safety Hazards Caused by Abandoned Mines
Nevada Division of Minerals, Nevada Abandoned Mine Lands Report 2012
U.S. Government Accountability Office, Abandoned Mine Land: Opportunities Exist to Improve Support for Economic Development and Facilities Planning in Coal Communities, GAO-24-106680