Las Vegas developer Jim Rhodes has cleared another hurdle for his massive housing project atop Blue Diamond Hill and could break ground this year. The Clark County Planning Commission on Tuesday ...

Red Rock lover “I love Red Rock as much ... Rhodes — who built the eponymous Rhodes Ranch community — bought the gypsum mine atop Blue Diamond Hill in 2003. Plans to build homes have ...

The gypsum mine is about three miles from those areas. "First it will be homes, then convenience stores, then shopping centers. ... You know how the story goes," she said.

A U.S. District Court judge dismissed all federal claims against Clark County in the long-running legal dispute over development on the privately-owned Blue Diamond Hill gypsum mine near Red Rock ...

Over the years, several plans to build developments near Red Rock Canyon have been proposed, and all have failed when faced with public opposition. Plans to build homes on the the gypsum mine ...

Sealed off at the surface, the mines are mostly abandoned ... depositing a thick layer of gypsum into a sedimentary package of rock called the Michigan Formation. For most of modern civilization ...

The United States Gypsum Company shut down its gypsum mine and drywall plant in Empire, Nev., earlier this year. It's a small town about 100 miles northeast of Reno in the Black Rock Desert.

Water that has filled the abandoned gypsum mines in northern Ohio since they were shut down has dissolved some of the underground gypsum rock, which likely caused depressions and sinkholes.

Nevada-based Gypsum Resources bought an abandoned gypsum mine in 2003 on land adjacent to the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area and the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area west of Las ...

Its production generates 200 million tons of carbon dioxide gas, a host of gypsum mines, and immense amounts of energy are required to fire the 500 degree kilns in which it is produced.

The tiny town of Blue Diamond lies about 25 miles southwest of central Las Vegas, in the desert of Red Rock Canyon ... Company purchased the nearby gypsum mine and built housing for its workers ...