Step into Alaska's gold rush legacy at Fairbanks' Gold Dredge 8, where you can explore mining history and try panning for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Subsistence cabins are seen dotting the horizon on the other side of Safety Sound near Nome on Sept. 30, 2020. The sound is an ...

If you want to learn about Alaska’s two gold rushes and get a little railroad history along with it, a tour of Gold Dredge No. 8 is exactly what you’re looking for. The gold rush that helped put ...

Alaska regulators have rejected a permit application for a controversial gold-dredging project near Nome after determining that the plan is riddled with deficiencies and would put the public interest ...

Bordering on the Bering Sea, Nome, Alaska advertises itself as being Alaska's most famous gold rush town and "about as far away as you can get in Alaska while still enjoying the conveniences of the ...

(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 ...

Alaskan Gold: Placer Mining in Interior Alaska is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire ...

"Jackass machinery" at Nome : the early years -- Small dredges and small profits : the pre-World War I boom -- "It takes a little more than 'hot air' to thaw some of that ground" : the Hammon ...

Three Alaska Native tribes have filed a lawsuit to overturn the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit granted to a company seeking to dredge for gold in a sensitive wetland area near Nome. The tribes, ...