Who we are?

The Silver Valley Mining Journal is rooted in what became the first annual Silver Summit in Wallace, Idaho, early in the fall of 2003. As the festivities of this remarkable, first-of-a-kind event swirled around them, David Bond and Bill Hoyt nursed a Rainier beer at Sweet’s Saloon and bemoaned the dearth of silver news on the Internet. Everywhere one turned there was another gold website, but nobody was paying any attention to silver, or to silver mining stocks.

The last publication to devote itself to silver was the late, great Wallace Miner, a broadsheet weekly which folded in the mid-1980s after the hostile takeover of its parent newspaper by a publishing conglomerate. Since then, silver news, and news of the surviving Spokane, Pacific and Vancouver Stock Exchange mining and exploring companies simply evaporated.

They decided to do something about this lack of silver news. Combining Hoyt’s web-authoring and business skills, and Bond’s award-winning writing talent, along with their shared passion for all things silver – mines, ounces, certificates, Morgans – a month later they launched silverminers.com and the Silver Valley Mining Journal was born.

Largely due to their efforts, and to the stellar performance of the “poor man’s gold,” silver news has now crept into the mainstream financial media. Silverminers.com has sought neither the traffic nor the advertising rates of such well-recognized publications as Kitco and 321 Gold, rather focusing its attentions on the American silver mining sector and events relating to that sector – a clearing house of information on all things silver. In addition to Dave Bond’s weekly offerings, silverminers.com features the exclusive daily audio commentary of Bunker Hill Mine owner Robert Hopper, as well as regular submissions from writers such as silver-investor.com’s David Morgan, silverstrategies.com’s Sean Rakhimov, and Mogambo Guru Richard Daughty – the “angriest guy in economics.”

In December 2004, silverminers.com underwent a thorough cosmetic and functional overhaul with an eye towards enhanced reader-friendliness, interactivity and shorter download times. This makeover also features a real-time silver stock ticker, and allows us to edit and maintain the Silver Valley Mining Journal on a real-time basis from both coasts. If there is breaking news affecting silver, our goal is that you will find it here first.

As with all good things, the Silver Valley Mining Journal is a work in progress. If you’re a “silver junkie” or are just curious about the white metal, please join us here daily and contact us with your ideas on how to improve the world’s premiere silver site on the world wide web.