If you want to learn about Alaska’s two gold rushes and get a little railroad history along with it, a tour of Gold Dredge No. 8 is exactly what you’re looking for. The gold rush that helped put ...

"Jackass machinery" at Nome : the early years -- Small dredges and small profits : the pre-World War I boom -- "It takes a little more than 'hot air' to thaw some of that ground" : the Hammon ...

(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 ...

Bristol Bay region in Alaska is key state region for wild salmon, but also holds sizable copper and gold deposits. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has blocked development of Pebble Mine, a ...

A western Alaska tribal consortium has appealed a key permit for a proposed gold dredging project in waters near Nome. Kawerak, a nonprofit that serves some 20 Iñupiaq and Yup’ik tribes in the Bering ...

The Alaska Gastineau Mill closed in 1921 due to ore that was too low grade to mine cost-effectively. Its remnants are visible on the hill above Thane Road — and below the road on the Sheep Creek Delta ...

The Alaska Mining Hall of Fame invites you to the AMHF Museum, 406 Cushman St., next door to McCafferty’s Coffee Shop, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 19, for an illustrated lecture presented by Joan ...

It was over a decade ago when Emily Riedel came to Nome, Alaska during the summer in hopes of getting enough gold to fund her opera studies. Her childhood friend, Zeke Tenhoff, suggested she could ...

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 ...