North of 60 Mining News - The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North

Ever since prospectors rushed to the Yukon seeking gold more than a century ago, miners have been guilty of extracting the mineral riches in the North and doing a vanishing act when the veins petered out or prices fell. These miners often left behind environmental messes that occasionally became regulatory nightmares.

Now that modern-day prospectors are again venturing to the far North, many of...