As the owner Cross and Caribou mines outside Nederland seeks to resume mining, the town of Nederland and nearby residents ...

One man's trash is an archaeologist's treasure — in other words, a lot can be discerned about a population’s habits and ways ...

The proposed dredging operation in Safety Sound near Nome is ‘contrary to responsible land management’ and the public interest, state regulators concluded ...

A year ago, Alaska’s miners were selling gold at what seemed like a great price: around $2,200 per ounce. Today, that number ...

Steve Clark, Nic Gwatkin and Chantal Hinds of Optum discuss the benefits of evidence maps to view data in disease areas. If you showed Google Earth and Google Maps to your great-grandfather ...

Geologists suggest that the Indus River carries gold deposits from the Himalayas, which have accumulated as placer gold or nuggets in what is now Pakistan. Due to the river’s flow, these nuggets are ...

Ghanaian cocoa farmers are abandoning beans for bullion in an illegal gold mining boom that has ravaged the country’s cocoa production and helped drive global chocolate prices to historic highs.

Some parts of those suburbs are completely underwater in the maps, with neighbouring areas cut off from the road network. Gold Coast Council mapping showing projected flood levels from Cyclone Alfred.

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (KTUU) - Departing in two-minute intervals, the race to Nome is officially underway. On Monday morning, 33 sled dog teams began the 1,128-mile race to Nome for the 53rd Iditarod.

Mineral Resources are reported at a cut-off grade of 0.30 g/t gold for all deposits, using a US$/CAN$ exchange rate of 0.75 and constrained within an open pit shell optimized with the Lerchs ...