Answer:
Barren location, infertile and dry; my name means "to leave", it's not heard to see why
It's been around for millions of years, but it's no more than a month old. What is it?
What must you give before you can keep it?
Men in skirts blow into these.
Long and thin, red within, with a nail at the end.
It flows out of the soil, It burns you if it boils, And holds us in its coils, More valuable than gold, As black as it is old.