Silver Valley Mining Association

The Silver Valley Mining Association (SVMA) is a corporation dedicated to promoting the Silver Valley of northern Idaho and its mining industry. Our duties include informing the public of the history and merits of the region, serving various beneficiary needs of the mining industry, and serving those who work in the industry and the investing public.

The Silver Valley Mining Association also supports scholarship and other charitable activities for the region, as well as general information programs for the public.

SVMA helped establish Natural Resources Education Outreach (NREO), a non-profit collaborative network of the Inland Northwest's natural resource businesses and industries. The foundation's purpose is to promote understanding about natural resources and related industries by providing K-12 teachers and non-formal educators real-world, hands-on educational programs and professional development opportunities that focus on the importance of the Inland Northwest natural resources and instructional excellence.

NREO also designed a great license plate to support the mining industry in the State of Idaho. We are asking everyone who supports the mining industry to renew their license plates with this mining logo. Any proceeds will help to develop the NREO program in continuing the education of our school teachers in the mining field. Click on the plate to drop down to see the results of our questionaire about this project.

The vital relationship between the mining community and local civic organizations was in evidence at the Joint Chamber Installation Banquet on January 16, 2007. Justin Rice presented Bob Hopper, Bunker Hill President, with the Justin Rice Award as the 2006 Mining Man of the Year. The Justin Rice Award is sponsored by the Silver Valley Mining Association. Also at the banquet, Chamber President Rick Shaffer presented the Historic Wallace Chamber of Commerce's 2006 Member of the Year Award to Sterling Mining Company, represented by its President, Ray DeMotte.

Silver Summit 2006™ happened September 21 thru 24, and was a tremendous success! During the first two days, the Silver Summit gathered silver's CEO's, interested public and leading silver commentators together to discuss silver mining, silver stocks, silver investments, silver strategies, silver as money, and the future of silver in society. We had well over 500 conventionaires and more than 43 exhibitors at this, the Fourth Annual Silver Summit in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Speakers included CEO's of the major silver-producing companies, including Hecla CEO Phil Baker and Pan-American CEO Ross Beaty, analysts, including David Morgan, Jason Hommel, Bernard von NotHaus, and speakers on the cutting-edge medicinal and consumer uses of silver. Over 40 producers were represented in an informal, get-to-know-the CEO setting.

The serious conference was followed by a casual weekend of fun and celebration in historic Wallace, Idaho, Silver Capital of the World, where events included mine tours and our annual salute to our claim to be the Center of the Universe!

More information on Silver Summit 2007™
is found in the Fall 2007 issue of Drill & Pick

pages 1-34 PDF file, 34 pages, 4.2 MBytes)

pages 35-68 PDF file, 34 pages, 4.7 MBytes)

More information on Silver Summit 2006™
is found in the Fall 2006 issue of
Drill & Pick (PDF file, 60 pages, 3.37 MBytes)

More information on Silver Summit 2005™
is found in the Summer 2005 issue of
Drill & Pick (PDF file, 32 pages, 2.41 MBytes)

A good baseline by which to gauge future mining activity in the Silver Valley may be found in the premier issue of Drill & Pick published in the Winter of 2004.
 
(PDF file, 32 pages, 2.86 MBytes)