An Alaska Native corporation leased mineral rights inside a national park to Contango Ore Inc. The company’s plans are ...

Developers’ efforts to overturn the cancellation of a vast gold and copper mine planned for southwest Alaska are getting a ...

ESTER, Alaska—At a mining site here, Rod Blakestad cracked open a shiny rock with his pick. He found quartz, a sign that the rock may contain gold. But Blakestad, a veteran gold hunter, tossed 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 ...

Thar be gold underneath these hills! That’s what the buyer of Woodchopper Gold Claim could say in Circle, Alaska. The massive property is hitting the market for $23.5 million, the Wall Street Journal ...

JUNEAU, Alaska — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took an unusually strong step Tuesday and blocked a proposed mine heralded by backers as the most significant undeveloped copper and gold ...

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 ...

Opponents of the planned Donlin Gold mine in Western Alaska won a key victory on Monday when a federal judge ruled that regulators who granted a permit needed to build the project failed to properly ...