“Not only a ghost town, but a ghost town that was built for $50 million in 1981, only to be shut down a year later.”
A mining company built a whole town for molybdenum workers in 1981, and the price crashed. The mine closed in late 1982 and everyone was ordered out by 1983. The private owner spends six figures a year keeping empty houses intact and has floated a spiritual retreat and an LNG plant. Resource towns live and die on one commodity price.