Ceremony Also Will Include Pioneers in Critical Minerals
as an honest person.” The Hall will also induct William “Bill” Ellis for his long career in mineral exploration that was focused on discovery and analysis of deposits containing chromium, platinum group elements, cobalt and nickel. In 1999, Bill co-founded Alaska Earth Sciences in Anchorage, where he worked until his retirement in 2021. A third presentation that will be given at the induction ceremony will honor pioneers previously inducted into the AMHF that were involved in the development and production of critical minerals. These will include Robert F. Lyman, Wallace Cady, and Russell Schaefer (mercury), Wise Mike Stepovich and Walter Stoll (tungsten), Walter Smith, Henry Whuya, Edward Olson, Andrew Olson, and John Mertie (platinum group elements), Earl Pilgrim (antimony), Bob Baker, Irv Tailleur, and John Schaeffer Jr. (zinc), and Nick and Evinda Tweet (graphite). Alan Mara Bateman will also be mentioned as he helped design the nation’s strategic and critical mineral priorities during WWII.
History Night will be at 7 p.m. Nov. 8. The Alaska Mining Hall of Fame Foundation, Inc. was founded to honor outstanding individuals that have played important roles in the development of Alaska’s mineral industry. These mining pioneers include a wide variety of individuals active since the mid-19th Century, including prospectors, miners, mine entrepreneurs, professional geologists and engineers, educators, government employees, aviators and even those in the legal profession. These individuals must be known, understood, and appreciated for their contributions to the development of the Territory and subsequently State of Alaska. The AMHF interprets and disseminates knowledge concerning the lives of the AMHF inductees, and encourages others in historical fields to gather additional biographical information. The AMHF believes that honoring those mining pioneers helps tell the story of mineral resource development in Alaska as well as providing a better understanding of other important events in Alaska’s history.
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