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

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 ...

“This place has got a pretty good reputation of having a hell of a lot of gold,” he says of the mine in Alaska. It's been four years since Todd Hoffman left behind his tumultuous mining ...

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 ...

Ian Klassen, the president and CEO of the company, says the studies are critical to advancing the project forward and making it “Alaska’s next great gold mine.” “We’ve been excited about ...

As gold rush dreamers flocked to Alaska, some settled in Fairbanks, but others found the area surrounding the confluence of the Tanana and Chena rivers more suitable. Thus, the simply named town ...

(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 ...