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Silver Hall of Fame

The Silver Hall of Fame (SHOF) brings recognition to individuals, companies, professions and groups that have made significant historical and ongoing contributions to finding and mining silver and to its many applications as the world’s most intriguing metal of all times. SHOF is owned and operated by Argentum Saloon Inc. a B.C. Canadian company.

Silver Hall of Fame

Inductee Advisory...

We humans have had an infatuation with silver for more than five millennia. For well over 5,000 years, it has served the world for many purposes.

It began when it was first mined around 3,000 BCE in Anatolia, which is now part of modern-day Turkey. In about 1,200 BCE, the centre of silver production shifted to Greece’s Laurium mines, where it continued to feed the region’s growing empires,...