Often called Cactus Kate or the Queen of Copper City by writers, Finley was tough enough to be perhaps the only woman mining alone in the Mojave Desert ... a long-abandoned mining camp.

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 ...

In the map below ... The agency, she added, is “protecting desert landscapes by directing development to areas that are more degraded.” “The [Mojave] Desert has some of the most intact ...

When my wife and I hike around and explore Juniper Flats, in the foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains and south of Apple Valley, we come across a fair number of abandoned mines. This has ...

But more than 50 percent of the work will be done at Death Valley National Park and the Mojave National Preserve, said Robert Bryson, Abandoned Mine Lands program manager for the Pacific West Region.

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 ...