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 ...

I had the chance to visit Alaska to dig up what people from the gold rush era left behind during the mid 1800's. It was such a fun trip. We visited Ketchikan, Scagway, and Juneau Alaska and we found ...

In the heart of Alaska’s remote southwestern Kuskokwim Mountains, two Canadian mining companies could soon get the green light to dig a massive open-pit mine to access what they describe as one of the ...

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 selling ...

This story was produced by Grist and co-published with Alaska Public Media. Editor's note: This story was updated Dec. 6 to include a response from Kinross issued after publication. People in Alaska’s ...

Jan 30 (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to take steps on Tuesday to block Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd's (NDM.TO), opens new tab proposed Pebble copper and gold mining ...

Thar be gold underneath these hills! That’s what the buyer of Woodchopper Gold Claim could say in Circle, Alaska. The massive property is hitting the market for $23.5 million, the Wall Street Journal ...

(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 ...

“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 career, but ...