Cleveland-Cliffs said it is temporarily idling its Minorca mine in Virginia, Minn., as well as part of Hibbing Taconite, two ...
US Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) and Governor Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) have announced funding with the hopes to breathe new ...
In his mining history column for Mining the West magazine, UNR mining history professor Eric Nystrom looks at the history of ...
a situation that killed two men in a mine accident near Virginia City in 1996. Since 1961, there have been 19 reported deaths in abandoned mines in Nevada, along with 24 injuries. Four dogs also ...
It filled in gaps in the Black history of the mining town, an integral setting in the Silver State’s founding. Joe Curtis, a Virginia City-based historian, said Black residents began arriving in ...
Known for its history and old West charm, Virginia City is excited to announce its nomination for the Best Main Street for ...
In the Mine Wars that erupted in southern West Virginia over the first two decades of the 20th century, coal miners and coal companies in West Virginia clashed in a series of brutal conflicts over ...