The old mining ... town of Randsburg roars to life on weekends with off-road enthusiasts — often entire families — drawn by former motorcycle racer Goat Breker. In 1899, this gold-rich Mojave ...

It’s a brisk day in Johannesburg, a tiny mining town tucked among the Rand Mountains in the Mojave Desert. The landscape is vast and rugged, a mishmash of rock, dirt and creosote bushes ...

The tiny desert town attracts star gazers ... crossroads for two different wagon trails and a mining camp. The railroad built it into a town in 1905 and it became a center for area cattle ranchers ...

Just outside of Barstow in the Mojave Desert—designated the state of California’s official “silver rush ghost town” in 2005—Calico started its life as a lawless 19th-century mining camp.

On a drive through the Mojave and Death Valley, T+L discovers abandoned mining ... more from the Desert 101 textbook: flat, dusty, hot, boring. Finally, we reached the small town of Trona.

Thankfully, there are plenty of desert towns to go around, as the U.S. is home to four major deserts, including the Great Basin, Mojave ... Silver City, an old mining town located in the southwest ...

The Trump Administration is allowing industrial mining in Mojave National Preserve, disregarding National Park Service ...

The Mojave Desert has many ghost towns, and Saltdale happens to be one of many — but it wasn’t always so. Ghostly town’s history dates to 1914 In 1914, mining of the salt located in Koehn ...

Trona, a town in California's Mojave Desert, is at risk of being left dry ... through two pipelines to Searles Valley Minerals, a mining company that uses the water to produce soda ash, boron ...