Mining is the dirty side of the “green” transition to electric vehicles. Battery recycling could give the U.S. a cleaner, ...

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

Copper is essential to modern technology. But Smith Valley residents worry about a mine’s effect on their water ...

Explore Nevada’s forgotten corners where crumbling buildings and deserted towns are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

Explore Arizona’s forgotten ghost towns, where crumbling buildings, silent streets, and desert winds create hauntingly ...

Two scenes. Two storytellers. Two visions for a climate-altered American West. On an overcast spring morning, I hopped a low metal fence off a lonely dirt road in the Nevada desert, following botanist ...

Bayan Mining and Minerals is preparing 3D gravity and magnetic models for five REE target zones at its Desert Star ... Read ...

A 9-year-old dog named Hailey was found at the bottom of an old mine shaft in Arizona. Mohave County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue A dog owner was exploring a mining area in the Arizona desert ...

Kolmanskop, a once-thriving diamond mining town nestled in the Namib Desert, is now a ghost town visited only by tourists.