IPOP LLC should not have gotten a wetlands permit to dredge for gold in Safety Sound near Nome, the tribes' lawsuit contends.

The Native Village of Dot Lake, an Alaskan tribe with federal recognition, has launched a lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps ...

Temperatures sometimes hit below -40 degrees, the pay varies, and you may have to work up to six weeks straight without a ...

(CN) — Three Alaska Native tribes are challenging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ recent approval of a gold mining project that would bring industrial suction dredging — a mining technique used to ...

Alaska became a destination for gold prospectors after the mid 1800s, and by the 1890s the gold rush had truly taken hold. Qasa Alom visits Juneau, Alaska, where he searches for gold with a local ...

A year ago, Alaska’s miners were selling gold at what seemed like a great price: around $2,200 per ounce. Today, that number sounds like a steal. After a historic surge in value, gold is now ...

Whistler is the closest large undeveloped gold-copper mineral deposit to Anchorage, Alaska's largest city (see Figure 1) and therefore has good proximity to existing highways, port facilities ...