Fix an integer $n$. What can you say about a (not necessarily square) matrix $A$ with integer entries that has the property that for any $k$, every $k\times k$ minor of $A$ is divisible by $n^{k-1}$? Have you seen such matrices before? Do they have a name? Are they in a bijection with some set whose description does not require knowing about determinants?
The question I really care about is the same but with "many-variable Laurent polynomials with integer coefficients" replacing the integers in the above (except $k$), but I suspect that it doesn't really make a difference.
The reason I care is that I have but I don't understand an amusing (I think) generalized Alexander invariant of tangles and virtual tangles with excellent composition properties and with values in such matrices as above, and I would like to understand its target space. A handout and a video are at http://www.math.toronto.edu/~drorbn/Talks/GWU-1203/ but no writeup exists at present.