Fellow rock hunters tried to save a 50-year-old who had a medical emergency while in an abandoned mine on an island in Alaska ...

Responders say Washington resident Devin Albert, 50, suffered an apparent heart attack Jan. 2 deep within the Salt Chuck Mine ...

Fellow rock hunters tried to save a 50-year-old from Washington state after a medical emergency in an abandoned gold mine in Alaska, officials said. Getty Images/iStockphoto Fellow rock hunters ...

Emergency responders on Sunday recovered the remains of a Washington state man from the abandoned Salt Chuck Mine near Thorne Bay on the east side of Prince of Wales Island, ...

WASHINGTON (KOLO ... According to the Nevada Division of Minerals, such abandoned mines can be found throughout the state and pose a risk to people and wildlife. The Abandoned Hardrock Mine ...

Credit: Illustration by Julia Wytrazek / Getty Images There are about 500,000 abandoned ... the mines — but that is a tall order, simply because there are so many. In the gold rush state of ...

“For 25 years, bills like this one to clean up these mines have stalled because of Washington politics ... Nevada has the most abandoned mines of any state in the country.

On January 2, 2025, 50-year-old Devin Albert of Washington passed away while rock hunting at the abandoned Salt Chuck Mine.