IPOP LLC should not have gotten a wetlands permit to dredge for gold in Safety Sound near Nome, the tribes' lawsuit contends.

(CN) — Three Alaska Native tribes are challenging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ recent approval of a gold mining project that would bring ... about 30 miles east of Nome, Alaska. “As Iñupiaq ...

A year ago, Alaska’s miners ... the debt,” he said. Gold miners across the state say it’s shaping up to be a good year. In Nome, a summer hotspot for placer mining, “things are looking ...