The old asbestos town at the heart of the rare earths race

Today, the municipality deep in Brazil’s interior is at the centre of a global race for the rare earth minerals essential to ...
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In the Ruins of Wyoming's Ghost Towns, Novelist Téa Obreht Plays House With the Dead

While researching her new novel Sunrise, novelist Téa Obreht encountered the long-lost glories and forgotten histories of the Mountain West’s former boomtowns.

Sunrise by Téa Obreht review – secrets and myths in the American west

Set across three interwoven timelines, this absorbing tale of an abandoned mining town explores courage, cowardice and how history is recorded ...

America’s burning ghost town: The Pennsylvania ghost town that has been burning since 1962, left with only 5 residents and a fire that may last another century

For more than sixty years, a relentless underground coal fire has consumed Centralia, Pennsylvania, turning it into a ghost town. It began in 1962 when a fire from a landfill spread into old mine ...

In 1948, a corporation built a town for 4,000 miners in California: 80 years later, it’s a ghost town in the middle of the desert

Built from scratch for thousands of iron miners after World War II, Eagle Mountain is now abandoned, with its future still ...

Calico Ghost Town: How a thriving silver town in the Mojave Desert collapsed in just 12 years

Calico, a once-thriving town in California, saw its fortunes rise with a silver rush that began in 1881. Unfortunately, the gold rush faded by the 1890s as silver prices plummeted, causing miners and ...

Colorado ghost towns capture our imaginations of old-time mountain living

Ghost towns capture our imaginations — haunted or not — about Colorado’s past and the people who braved treacherous mountain terrain or harsh prairies to stake out a life. In a ghost town, people can ...

In 1881, silver turned California’s Calico into a 3,000-person desert boomtown. By 1907, falling prices had turned it into a ghost town

In California's Mojave Desert, Calico now appears as a quiet collection of weathered buildings surrounded by dry hills and ...
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11 Little-Known Places In West Virginia That Are Surprisingly Fascinating

From hidden gems to unexpected attractions, these little-known places in West Virginia are surprisingly fascinating and well ...