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 ...
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 ...
Since our last article, NovaGold Resources Inc. (ticker symbol “NG”) has gained 17.46% on the NYSE, outperforming the S&P 500 index, which had gained 1.11% at the time of writing. This upturn in the ...
The long-planned Donlin Gold mine in Southwest Alaska is the latest Alaska project to gain the support of a federal agency seeking to streamline permitting. The Federal Permitting Improvement Steering ...
Gold mining in the United States is heavily concentrated in a handful of states that combine rich geology with decades of ...
(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 ...