The average number of mining and natural resources jobs in Fairbanks dropped 14 percent in the first quarter of 2007 after five consecutive years of first quarter growth, according to figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. While preliminary figures show a recovery in the second quarter of...
A group of influential Alaskans has formed a nonprofit group to counter what they called misinformation being disseminated in television and newspaper advertisements by groups opposing Pebble, a possible mine on the Alaska Peninsula southwest of Anchorage. The move is sure to ramp up the public relations...
Tonogold Resources, Inc. has completed their 2006 core drilling, sampling and mapping program at their 83,200 acre Nyac Gold Project in the Tintina Gold Belt of southwest Alaska. The Company has shipped 4,137 soil samples, 55 rock chip samples and 1,361 core samples to the assay lab, ALS Chemex. Assays...