Mountain-Pass News

Russian oil output will stagnate in 2010 and begin to decline as mature fields lose production capacity and only one new project comes on line, oil analysts at Bernstein Research said on Wednesday.

Reporting from Mountain Pass, Calif. - Fear of a shortage of rare-earth metals used in high-tech military and industrial products has spawned global efforts to reopen abandoned mines, including the formidable Mountain Pass Mine in California's Mojave Desert.

Samples of rare earth elements are converted to glass discs inside the testing building at the Molycorp Minerals Mountain Pass Mine in Mountain Pass, California August 19, 2009.

We're far less dependent upon other nations for energy than we are for the rare earth metals necessary to make hybrid vehicles.

By most measures, hybrid cars are great--they save everyone's favorite non-renewable resource and they're quiet, too.

The future of wind farms and hybrid cars may well hinge on what happens to a 55-acre hole in the ground at the edge of California's high desert.

From Big Mountain Pass, cross Highway 65 and start on the Great Western Trail. At the very beginning of the hike the trail takes a series of switchbacks up to the lower ridgeline.

A San Fernando Valley woman died in a car crash near the Nevada state line Monday.

San Bernardino County fire authorities said 15 people have been reported injured in a highway pileup on Interstate 15 in Southern California's Cajon Pass.

A scraggly outcrop of rocks and Joshua trees alongside Route 15, it has no kitschy landmarks like the 134-foot-tall thermometer that nearby Baker, California, installed in the Mojave Desert, and no casinos like Las Vegas has an hour up the road.