(Above) Peter Maciulaitis, Chair of the John Livermore Award
Committee and MHA Past President, displayed the award medallion and
announced the 2025 award winners, Cynthia
Neely, The George Rowe Museum, and the residents of Silver Plume,
Colorado for preservation of the historic mining landscape.
(Left) Brian Leech, MHA Secretary and Chair of the MHA Research
Grant Committee, announced that the 2025 grants are awarded to
Jennifer Eaglin, The
Ohio State University; Sarah
Perry, McMaster University;
Surabhi Pudhasaini, Independent
Scholar in Kathmandu; and
Nithyanand Nagesh Rao, UC San Diego.
(Above) MHA President and Editor of The Mining History Journal,
Eric Clements, presents John Townley Award to Robert Spude for his
2024 article, “Patent Wars: Edward
Hoit Nutter, Minerals Separation, Ltd, and the Introduction of the
Revolutionary Froth Flotation Process into the United States.”
(Right) Chair of the MHA Book Award Committee and MHA Past
President, Ron Brown, announced that this year’s winner is
Nick Pappas, for his book “Crosses of Iron, The Tragic Story of
Dawson, New Mexico, and Its Twin Mining Disasters.”
(Above) Chair of the Kieth Long Presentation Award Committee and MHA
Past President, Stephanie Saager-Bourret, presents the 2025 award to
Ed Raines, for his presentation,
“Artisanal Mining in the Quartz Creek Pegmatite District, Gunnison
County, Colorado.”
This award was presented at the Presidential Luncheon.
(Left) Chair of the Rodman
Paul Award Committee, Johnny Johnsson, announces the 2025 Rodman
Paul Award recipient, Robert E. Eveleth, Jr., Mining Engineer, New Mexico Bureau of
Geology & Mineral Resources, curator of the mineral museum, and
creator of the bureau archive.The award was presented at a bureau event following the MHA
conference.
Stan Dempsey, MHA Past President and founding member (center),
presents a
$2,500 check to MHA President, Eric Clements (left), for the
establishment
of an award honoring MHA Past President and founding member, Duane
Smith,
