It’s a brisk day in Johannesburg, a tiny mining town tucked among the Rand Mountains in the Mojave Desert. The landscape ... Those curious holes are abandoned mines, and they’re driving ...

BARSTOW • Officials at the Mojave National Preserve expect to ... take about four or five months to finish. About 1,800 abandoned mine shafts and other features exist at the preserve.

nearly a thousand of them puncturing mountains and cratering the desert. Cold winds blow through darkened shafts. Bats flutter in and out at twilight. Linda Manning, an expert on abandoned mines ...

On a drive through the Mojave and Death Valley, T+L discovers abandoned mining towns ... it occurred to me that the principal allure of the desert is that nothing quite normal survives there.

He had fallen 100 feet to the bottom of an abandoned ... the Mojave Desert in Jeeps – has prowled the dozens of trails near Lake Havasu City and fenced off about 180 abandoned-mine adits and ...

Mine shafts in the Randsburg Mining District in ... a tiny mining town tucked among the Rand Mountains in the Mojave Desert. The landscape is vast and rugged, a mish-mash of rock, dirt and ...

Mine shafts in the Randsburg Mining District in Johannesburg, Calif., where gold was discovered in 1895. It's a brisk day in Johannesburg, a tiny mining town tucked among the Rand Mountains in the ...