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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Located near Joshua Tree National Park, it had long served as a company town for a mining company called Kaiser Steel, where it was home to 4,000 mine workers and their families. But when the mine ...

But Kaiser Steel closed its doors in 1983, and so did the Eagle Mountain mine. The prosperity of blowing iron ore out of the hillside had withered. After the mining business died, a private ...