Those curious holes are abandoned mines, and they’re driving a real-estate boomlet in a place that hasn’t had one in more than a century. As the price of gold climbs, the demand for Randsburg ...

Reporting from Randsburg, Calif ... I approached refused to confirm the rumor that 300 pounds of gold are taken from the mine each month. He just smiled when I asked him, but I noticed ...

By 1897 Randsburg was a boomtown of almost 4,000 ... None of them would confirm the rumored 300 pounds of gold taken from this mine each month. As local gold petered out, so did the population ...

Welcome to Randsburg, a desert gold-mining town that struck it big more than a century ago. On a recent Thursday, staff photographer Jennifer Maher and I set out for a Randsburg adventure and were ...

Randsburg is known as one of the small towns within the gold and silver mining belt of Kern County. Randsburg, Red Mountain, and Johannesburg - other so-called ghost towns- were once hustling and ...

But a century ago, after miners extracted the gold or silver or other ... towns of Johannesburg and Randsburg, which are collectively known as the Rand Mining District — are considered the ...

Rudy Salazar figured last year when he bought 58 acres 2 miles west of U.S. 395 in Randsburg that he'd mine it for gold, as previous owners did, or maybe develop homes, if not commercial storage.

dry desert country and now he has but one ambition and that is to find gold.” He'd previously struck it rich by discovering the White Sand Mine near Randsburg, immediately selling his interest ...

The unidentified person had life-threatening injuries and was pulled from the mine and then airlifted to the hospital for treatement. COUNTY FIRE PRESS RELEASE: RANDSBURG, Calif., Thursday night ...

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 ...