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. They break at the entrance to Eagle Mountain, a ghost town in the California desert that has attracted continuous attention since its untimely end in 1983.
At the mine’s peak, they broke records for daily production levels, but it only took a few years of poor outcomes for the mine to shutter, evicting the population. . He mentioned how large red trucks have become a regular sighting. A “for sale” sign at the town’s entrance promising rock products and minerals may have been answered.