It's a brisk day in Johannesburg, a tiny mining town tucked among the Rand Mountains in the Mojave Desert. The landscape is ...

The National Park Service and an Australian company are at odds over an old Mojave Desert gold mine, where the company is seeking to extract rare earth minerals.

Desert defenders scored a big win in August 2019, when California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill requiring independent scientific proof that groundwater mining projects in the Mojave will not harm ...

Today’s Mojave Desert, once an ancient sea ... The area supported some ranching, but most economic activity centered around mining for iron, copper, gold and silver. The preserve’s wide ...

LAS VEGAS— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a petition today asking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to give Endangered Species Act protection to the Las Vegas bearpoppy, a desert flower ...

MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE, Calif. — Deep in the Mojave National Preserve lies an old open pit mine where workers dug and drilled for gold and silver from the late 1800s to the 1990s. Miners are ...

The rocky shelf road leading to the mine winds through every layer of the Mojave. Desert tortoise habitat gives way to yucca- and cholla-studded hills, followed by stands of pinyon pine ...

The National Park Service and owners of the Colosseum Mine in San Bernardino County, shown in 2025, have been involved in a years-long dispute. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times) ...