Southeast Alaskan tribal groups are decrying a proposed mine in northwestern British Columbia, arguing it will have ...

Excellent mining reports continue to come from Alaska. The richest quartz ledge, ever found in the Atlin district ... samples of the ore in which free gold is very plentiful.

All that the American West once was, Alaska still is ... a geologic anomaly has been found—an ore body that may hold the world's largest deposit of gold and one of the largest of copper.

Salmon Beyond Borders, a conservation group focusing on maintaining and sustaining wild salmon populations in Alaska and ...

Still, Alaska is far from being an untouched wilderness today, and, in fact, was not pristine even a century ago. When the Harriman Expedition arrived in 1899, it found much evidence of industry ...

An ocean voyage to Alaska on Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth ... flourished in this harsh landscape; after prospectors found gold in Bonanza Creek in 1896, miners rushed to join them.