The Kigluaik Mountains stretch across the Seward Peninsula of western Alaska like a spine, their jagged ridges keeping a record of time. The Inupiaq have long read these ridges and valleys as a living ...
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 ...
The Lucky Shot property in the scenic Hatcher Pass area, in the Mat-Su north of Anchorage, is one mining project under development by Contango Ore. Contango helped successfully develop another ...
The Eskay Creek project is one of several prospective mines near the British Columbia-Alaska border, where the government and ...
Property-Wide Prospecting Identifies Multiple Undrilled Silver-Rich Polymetallic Targets Across 60 km Trend Vancouver, ...
Gold mining in the United States is heavily concentrated in a handful of states that combine rich geology with decades of ...
Alaska’s mining industry supported 11,800 jobs and $1.1 billion in total wages in 2023, according to a report commissioned by the Alaska Miners Association and Alaska Metals Mines. The four-page ...
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 ...