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

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 ...

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 ...

Having arrived in Alaska as a VISTA volunteer more than 40 ... 107 million ounces of gold, and 2.8 million tons of molybdenum (used as a hardener in lightweight alloy products like surgical ...

“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 ...

Salmon canning was big business in San Francisco for a long time. In the early 20th century, sailing ships would head for ...

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 ...