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Tommy Singer

Tommy Singer

— 2014

Tommy Singer (born 1940; death May 31, 2014) was a Navajo silversmith who specialized in chip-inlay jewelry. He died in a motorcycle accident on May 31, 2014. His inlaid turquoise, coral, and silver pieces incorporated traditional Navajo designs. Singer gained acclaim as the originator of the chip

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Antonio Siraumea

Antonio Siraumea

— 1760

Antonio Siraumea, a Yaqui, was likely a resident of the rancheria Arizonac, a real or small mining camp at the edge of the northern frontier of the Spanish colonies of New Spain. 

(Yaqui,  Indian people centred in southern Sonora state, on the west coast of Mexico. They speak the

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Randy Smallwood

Wheaton Precious Metals

Randy Smallwood, born in Grande Prairie, Alberta, is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Wheaton Precious Metals, a leading company specializing in silver and gold streaming agreements. His journey into the mining industry began in his youth when he worked as a

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Michael Steinmann

Pan American Silver

Michael Steinmann is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Pan American Silver Corp., one of the world's largest primary silver producers with operations throughout the Americas. He assumed this role in 2015.

Dr. Steinmann joined Pan American Silver in 2004,

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William Morris Stewart

William Morris Stewart

— 1909

William Morris Stewart (August 9, 1827 – April 23, 1909) was an American lawyer and politician. In 1964, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.

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Stewart was born in Wayne County, New York, on August 9, 1825. As a child he

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Paul Storr

Paul Storr

— 1844

Paul Storr was England's most celebrated silversmith during the first half of the nineteenth century. His pieces historically, and currently, adorn royal palaces and the finest stately homes throughout Europe and the world. Storr's reputation rests on his mastery of the grandiose neo-Classical

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Thomas Sutton

Thomas Sutton

— 1875

Thomas Sutton, who was born in Kensington, London, studied architecture before earring a Bachelor of Arts degree from Caius College in Cambridge. Photography first entered his life in 1841 when he posed for a daguerreotype portrait in Antoine Claudet's studio. In 1855 he set up a photographic

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Augusta Tabor

Augusta Tabor

— 1895

As the first woman in the California Gulch district, Augusta Louise Tabor, fondly remembered as "The First Lady of Leadville," spent much of her life in helping make Leadville a great mining camp.

She was born in Maine and, in 1857, married the now famous mining magnate, Horace Tabor, who was

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Horace Tabor

Horace Tabor

— 1899

Horace Tabor's life story is a testament to hard work but also a great anecdote about short-sightedness. From a simple stone-cutter, he would grow to become one of the country's wealthiest men, only to lose his riches after spending lavishly and investing poorly.

Born in Vermont in 1830, Horace

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Henry Fox Talbot

Henry Fox Talbot

— 1877

Henry Talbot was an English polymath - a person whose knowledge spans a substantial number of subjects. His interest in photography led him to invent the salted paper and calotype process, also called talbotye, in the 1830s. In this technique, a sheet of paper coated with silver chloride was

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