Gold was discovered in the Fairbanks area in 1902 when Italian immigrant Felix Pedro struck it rich. He put Fairbanks on the map and thousands of men rushed to interior Alaska in search of the ...

Alaskan Gold: Placer Mining in Interior Alaska is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire ...

Third in a three-story series on mining in Alaska published in a partnership between Inside Climate News and Northern Journal. Read parts one and two. COOK INLET — High in a mountain valley on the far ...

Alaska regulators have rejected a permit application for a controversial gold-dredging project near Nome after determining that the plan is riddled with deficiencies and would put the public interest ...

(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 ...