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 ...

One torched the landmark Gold Dredge No. 3, across the highway from the Chatanika Lodge, but was contained to the dredge. Another, at about 47 Mile, spread to about 30 acres and led to traffic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...