One torched the landmark Gold Dredge No. 3, across the highway from the Chatanika Lodge, but was contained to the dredge. Another, at about 47 Mile, spread to about 30 acres and led to traffic ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Justin Peterson, a 41-year-old gold miner in Alaska who has built ... you have to dive dredge, which is a form of plaster mining.

(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 ...

Canada’s Barrick Gold (GOLD) is exiting an Alaska mine project by selling its 50% stake to billionaire hedge fund manager ...