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 ...

Contango is now seeking to grow by using a similar model in Southcentral Alaska: It aims to develop two more gold mines by the end of the decade that, like Manh Choh, would ship raw ore rather than ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 29—A federal agency that coordinates permitting for projects said it will support Donlin Gold in Southwest Alaska, a move ...

(CN) — A federal judge on Monday ruled that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Land Management should have considered a far more catastrophic spill of chemical tailings before ...

(Reuters) -Canada's Barrick Gold said on Tuesday it will exit the Donlin gold Project in Alaska by selling its 50% stake to billionaire John Paulson and NovaGold Resources for up to $1.1 billion. The ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (ALASKA BEACON) - The Alaska Supreme Court has upheld state regulators’ decision to grant permits for a large gold mine planned for Southwest Alaska, bringing the proposed Donlin ...

Fellow rock hunters tried to save a 50-year-old from Washington state after a medical emergency in an abandoned gold mine in Alaska, officials said. Getty Images/iStockphoto Fellow rock hunters tried ...

Judge Sharon Gleason said the Army Corps of Engineers did not sufficiently analyze the environmental impacts of a mine wastewater spill. A federal judge handed the developers of an already approved ...

Rick Van Nieuwenhuyse has little patience left for mines that aren’t getting built. After 40 years in Alaska’s mining industry, he is tired of permitting delays, lawsuits and the state’s lack of ...