LAS VEGAS — Nevada is home to more than 300,000 abandoned mines — mines that can kill you in an almost unimaginable number of ways.
Frenchman Mountain, where nearby an abandoned mine is located, is seen Sept. 27 in Las Vegas.
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Photos: The abandoned mines of western America
Abandoned Mines
In this Aug. 11, 2018, photo, Bill Powell travels in to a mine near Eureka, Utah. He searched similar mines for months before his 18-year-old son Riley and girlfriend Brelynne Otteson were found dead in a shaft in March. During the search, he formed friendships with mine explorers who volunteered to help. Despite his painful memories, Powell decided to see what draws them there. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Abandoned Mines
In this Aug. 11, 2018, photo, Bill Powell travels in to a mine near Eureka, Utah. He searched similar mines for months before his 18-year-old son Riley and girlfriend Brelynne Otteson were found dead in a shaft in March. During the search, he formed friendships with mine explorers who volunteered to help. Despite his painful memories, Powell decided to see what draws them there. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Abandoned Mines
In this Aug. 11, 2018, photo, Bill Powell travels in to a mine near Eureka, Utah. He searched similar mines for months before his 18-year-old son Riley and girlfriend Brelynne Otteson were found dead in a shaft in March. During the search, he formed friendships with mine explorers who volunteered to help. Despite his painful memories, Powell decided to see what draws them there. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Abandoned Mines
This Sept. 7, 2018, photo shows Nick Castleton looking down a shaft, near Eureka, Utah. Underneath the landscape of the U.S. West lie hundreds of thousands of abandoned mines, an underground world that can hold serious danger and unexpected wonder. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Abandoned Mines
In this June 6, 2018, photo, Chris Rohrer, with the Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining, peers in to a cave before its sealed off near Gold Hill, Utah. In Utah alone, the state is trying to seal more than 10,000 open mines with cinderblocks and metal grates after people have died in rock falls and all-terrain-vehicle crashes and from poisonous air over the past three decades. For the state, the message is clear: Stay out and stay alive. The program has been around more than 30 years, and the division has sealed some 6,000 abandoned mines. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Abandoned Mines
This June 6, 2018, photo shows a contractor hired by the Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining sealing off a abandoned mine near Gold Hill, Utah. In Utah alone, the state is trying to seal more than 10,000 open mines with cinderblocks and metal grates after people have died in rock falls and all-terrain-vehicle crashes and from poisonous air over the past three decades. For the state, the message is clear: Stay out and stay alive. The program has been around more than 30 years, and the division has sealed some 6,000 abandoned mines. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Abandoned Mines
In this June 6, 2018, photo, Chris Rohrer, with the Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining, climbs in to a cave before its sealed off near Gold Hill, Utah. In Utah alone, the state is trying to seal more than 10,000 open mines with cinderblocks and metal grates after people have died in rock falls and all-terrain-vehicle crashes and from poisonous air over the past three decades. For the state, the message is clear: Stay out and stay alive. The program has been around more than 30 years, and the division has sealed some 6,000 abandoned mines. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Abandoned Mines
In this Aug. 14, 2018, photo, Jeremy MacLee walks through a mine near Eureka, Utah. Underneath the mountains and deserts of the U.S. West lie hundreds of thousands of abandoned mines. Still, not everyone wants to see the mines closed. "Nobody has walked the path you're walking for 100 years," said MacLee, who uses old mining documents and high-tech safety equipment to find and explore forgotten holes, mostly in Utah. He also lends his expertise to searches for missing people. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Abandoned Mines
In this Aug. 14, 2018, photo, Jeremy MacLee walks through a mine near Eureka, Utah. Underneath the mountains and deserts of the U.S. West lie hundreds of thousands of abandoned mines. Still, not everyone wants to see the mines closed. "Nobody has walked the path you're walking for 100 years," said MacLee, who uses old mining documents and high-tech safety equipment to find and explore forgotten holes, mostly in Utah. He also lends his expertise to searches for missing people. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Abandoned Mines
In this Aug. 26, 2018, photo, Jeremy MacLee explores a mine near Eureka, Utah. Underneath the mountains and deserts of the U.S. West lie hundreds of thousands of abandoned mines. Still, not everyone wants to see the mines closed. "Nobody has walked the path you're walking for 100 years," said MacLee, who uses old mining documents and high-tech safety equipment to find and explore forgotten holes, mostly in Utah. He also lends his expertise to searches for missing people. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Abandoned Mines
In this Aug. 14, 2018, photo, an explorer maneuvers around rocks in a mine near Eureka, Utah. A Utah agency is working to seal thousands of old mines across the state after people have died in rock falls and all-terrain-vehicle crashes and from poisonous air in the past few decades. Not everyone wants to see the mines closed. For years, a dedicated subculture of explorers has been slipping underground to see tunnels lined with sparkling quartz, century-old rail cars and caverns that open in the earth like buried ballrooms. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Abandoned Mines
This Aug. 28, 2018, photo shows a rail car at an abandoned mine in Hiawatha, Utah. Many mines are like a time capsule, complete with rail cars and tools, and lined with intricately shaped stones. In ghost towns like Hiawatha in eastern Utah, it's as if history is holding its breath. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Abandoned Mines
This Aug. 28, 2018, photo shows the entrance of an abandoned mine in Hiawatha, Utah. Underneath the mountains and deserts of the U.S. West lie hundreds of thousands of abandoned mines, an underground world that can hold both serious danger and unexpected wonder. Abandoned mines are a legacy of the region's prospecting past, when almost anyone could dig a mine and then walk away, with little cleanup required, when it stopped producing. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
