Gold was discovered in the Fairbanks area in 1902 when Italian immigrant Felix Pedro struck it rich. He put Fairbanks on the map and thousands of men rushed to interior Alaska in search of the ...

Fairbanks had many colorful characters that populated the Interior gold camps of Alaska. One of these men was the legendary ...

Contango Ore helped build Alaska’s newest major mine. Its merger with Dolly Varden Silver comes amid a flurry of deals in the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday ordered approval of a proposed 211-mile road through an Alaska wilderness to allow mining of copper, cobalt, gold and other minerals. The ...