Beneath the desert sands sit valuable mineral treasures. Beyond the promises of gold, other substances grant products that helped to move industries forward. The Eagle Mountain Mine was one of ...

While ghost town enthusiasts can't visit this crumbling deserted California town that was once a desert oasis, they can learn ...

In the 1950s, Eagle Mountain was a boomtown with a bustling iron mine. Shipbuilding magnate Henry Kaiser founded the mine after World War II on land carved out of Joshua Tree National Monument ...

Formerly a company town for Kaiser Steel, Eagle Mountain provided a palm tree-studded oasis for some 4,000 residents. Most were employed by the mine. Workers drilled, blasted and shoveled the ...

Nestled in Riverside County outside Joshua Tree National Park, “Eagle Mountain” was founded as a company town for Kaiser Steel Mine in 1948, CBS Moneywatch reported. The entire property and ...

This scarred piece of California desert is what’s left of one of the country’s largest open-pit mining operations and the little company town that Kaiser ... the Eagle Mountain iron mine ...

For decades, the mine and company town around ... in the Los Angeles Times After World War II, Kaiser Steel began mining operations in Eagle Mountain and created a company town whose population ...

Eagle Mountain was formerly a company town for Kaiser Steel where about 4,000 residents lived just outside of Joshua Tree Nation Park. Most of the inhabitants worked for the mine in search of iron ...

A road diverges in the yellow flats along the outer rim of Joshua Tree National Park. The two lanes in the middle of the desert peel off Interstate 10, about an hour and a half from Palm Springs.

Eagle Mountain, founded in 1948, served as a bustling company town for Kaiser Steel Mine until its closure in the 1980s. The mining company extracted iron ore from the nearby hills, which was ...