Bond: Remembering Bob Hopper

Saturday, Sept. 13, would have been Robert Dwayne Hopper’s 75 ^th birthday. For those new here, or with short-term memories, Robert Hopper was owner and managing partner of the legendary Bunker Hill Mine in Kellogg, Idaho, from 1990 until his death in January 2011. He was an Elk, a Mason, a self-educated genius, and my dearest friend. We met by happenstance in 1999 when a former colleague from the Coeur d’Alene Press who was working on the Milo Creek flood control project told me of this guy who had bought Bunker Hill, was making colloidal silver, and had just put the lie to the whole EPA Superfund fiasco in the Coeur d’Alene River Basin. As to colloidal silver, try it sometime on a burn, or inhale a few drops to end your sinusitis: Silver is nature’s oldest known bacteriacide/ David Bond , Wallace Street Journal . More here . (SR File Photo, of Bob Hopper)

Question: Do you remember some of the giants of the Silver Valley mine days?