Production of gold and silver was suspended in 1999, including at what was, in 1980, the Western Hemisphere's largest gold mine, at Pueblo Viejo.

* 1980 – Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, led to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.

* Dino Meneghin ( born 1950 ), professional basketball player for Ignis Varese and silver medalist at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

He won a silver medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Petrov () ( born June 30, 1947 in Krasnogorsk, Soviet Union ) is a Soviet ice hockey player, two times Olympic Champion ( 1972 — gold, 1976 — gold, 1980 — silver ), who is currently retired.

The first lot of the Qumran silver coins was published by Marcia Sharabani in 1980.

The 1977 issue was to celebrate Queen Elizabeth's silver Jubilee, the 1980 issue for the 80th birthday of Elizabeth, the Queen Mother and, in 1981, the coin was issued to celebrate the marriage of Lady Diana Spencer and Prince Charles.

On the 1980 British Television series Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World, Egyptologist Arne Eggebrecht created a voltaic cell using a jar filled with grape juice, to produce half a volt of electricity, demonstrating for the programme that jars used this way could electroplate a silver statuette in two hours, using a gold cyanide solution.

Tadeusz Ślusarski ( 19 May 1950 in Żary – 17 August 1998 on the E65 road near Ostromice ) was a Polish Olympic gold medalist in pole vault at the 1976 Olympics, as well as a silver medalist at the 1980 Olympics ( behind another Polish champion Władysław Kozakiewicz ).

With the Soviet national team, Fetisov won two golds ( 1984, 1988 ) one silver ( 1980 ) in the Olympics, and seven golds ( 1978, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1989, 1990 ), one silver ( 1987 ), two bronzes ( 1985, 1991 ) in the World Championships, one Canada Cup in 1981, and Ice Hockey World Junior Championship in 1978.

Sebastian Coe (# 254 ) was the silver medalist in Men's 800m at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow.

Bayi won a silver medal in the 3000 m steeplechase at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

* 1980 To celebrate their 21st anniversary, UTV commissioned a new ident featuring a model the station logo embedded on four faces of a cube, coated in silver with a pole skewering the top and bottom of the cube.

In 1980 a silver Ford Capri 3. 0 S ( 342 ) was issued as a tie-in with the popular British television crime drama The Professionals featuring models of ' Bodie ', ' Doyle ' and ' Cowley ', as well as a 1957 Ford Thunderbird ( 348 ) from the American show Vega $ with ' Dan Tanna ' at the wheel.

In 1980 the first of the later ' Corgitronics ' range was introduced: the HCB-Angus Firestreak ( 1001 ) with battery-operated siren and flashing red lights, complete with two figures in silver protective clothing.

At the Moscow Olympics of 1980 she won the gold medal in the individual 400 metres and silver medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay race.

The same team, with Koch part of it, that won silver over 4 x 400 metres in the 1980 Olympic Games, set world records over the same distance in 1980, 1982 and 1984.

He competed in wheelchair racing at both the 1980 and 1984 Summer Paralympics, winning a total of three gold, two silver, and one bronze medal.

She won a silver medal in the 400 metre individual medley at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, and two gold medals at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton.

Between 1948 and 1980, 23 out of 27 Olympic medals were won by Eastern Europe, with only Sweden ( gold in 1948 and bronze in 1952 ), Denmark ( silver in 1960 ) and Japan ( bronze in 1968 ) breaking their dominance.

Brothers Nelson Bunker Hunt and William Herbert Hunt attempted to corner the world silver markets in the late 1970s and early 1980s, at one stage holding the rights to more than half of the world's deliverable silver .< REF NAME =" TEXAS "> During the Hunts ' accumulation of the precious metal, silver prices rose from $ 11 an ounce in September 1979 to nearly $ 50 an ounce in January 1980 .< REF NAME =" NYT "> Silver prices ultimately collapsed to below $ 11 an ounce two months later ,< REF NAME =" NYT " /> much of the fall occurring on a single day now known as Silver Thursday, due to changes made to exchange rules regarding the purchase of commodities on margin .< REF NAME =" TimeBubble ">;

In 1980, Yamaha eventually released the first FM digital synthesizer, the Yamaha GS-1, but at an expensive retail price of $ 16, 000.

The " informal " economics presented in Milton Friedman's massively influential popular work Free to Choose ( 1980 ), is explicitly Hayekian in its account of the price system as a system for transmitting and coordinating knowledge.

The console was test marketed in Fresno, California, in 1979 with a total of four games available, and was released nationwide in 1980 with a price tag of US $ 299 and a pack-in game: Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack.

So per the terms of the wager, Ehrlich paid Simon the difference in price between the same quantity of metals in 1980 and 1990 ( which was $ 576. 07 ).

Wholesale price inflation averaged 2. 1 percent per year from 1980 through 1988 ; consumer prices increased by an average of 4. 7 percent annually.

In 1952, D. H. Peterson and H. C. Murray of Upjohn developed a process that used Rhizopus mold to oxidize progesterone into a compound that was readily converted to cortisone The ability to cheaply synthesize large quantities of cortisone from the diosgenin in yams resulted in a rapid drop in price to US $ 6 per gram, falling to $ 0. 46 per gram by 1980.

Already in 1980 the Whitney Museum of American Art spent $ 1 million for Three Flags ( 1958 ), then the highest price ever paid for the work of a living artist.

In 1980, the price of a 16 kW ( kiloword, equivalent to 32kB ) core memory board that fitted into a DEC Q-bus computer was around.

After 1980, oil prices began a six-year decline that culminated with a 46 percent price drop in 1986.

In late 1980 MCA received negative publicity when it attempted to raise the list price of new releases by top selling artists from $ 8. 98 to $ 9. 98.

Many average computer users also weren't ready in 1980 for an operating system with the capabilities and flexible configuration options that SOS offered, especially combined with the Apple III's bad reputation due to poor engineering and its high retail price of near $ 4, 000.

The VIC-20 resulted from the confluence of these events and it was introduced in 1980 at a list price of $ 299. 95.

In October 1980 Keneally went into Pfefferberg's shop in Beverly Hills to ask about the price of briefcases.

The magazine moved from weekly to monthly publication with issue 44 in September 1980, becoming Doctor Who ( the tagline " A Marvel Monthly " was not part of the name, but simply a description which appeared on many of Marvel UK's monthly titles at that point ) and a cover price of 30p.

After negotiations between Trudeau and Lougheed, the NEP was revised so that the price of so called " new " Canadian oil ( discovered after December 31, 1980 ) would eventually rise to the world price but existing " old " oil would still be capped at 75 % of the world price .< ref name =" nickles "> Nickle's Energy Group.

In 1980, however, the inflation adjusted average price of oil was only 5 % higher than the previous year yet the per capita contributions from Alberta rose 77 % ( see graph Fluctuations: Oil Prices & Alberta Per Capita Federal Contributions 1975-1981 ).

In 1980 a Czechoslovak official indicated that Czechoslovakia was paying about one-fourth the world price for its oil imports.

In 1980, an illuminated version of this manuscript in Arabic was sold at Sotheby's to Nasser David Khalili for £ 850, 000, the then highest price ever paid for an Arabic manuscript.

The MSRP price of a Cutlass Calais in 1980 was $ 6, 919. 57.

In 1980, biologist Paul R. Ehrlich bet economist Julian Lincoln Simon that the price of a portfolio of $ 200 of each of five mineral commodities ( copper, chromium, nickel, tin, and tungsten ) would rise over the next 10 years.

On 21 January 1980 the gold fixing reached the price of $ 850, a figure not overtaken until 3 January 2008 when a new record of $ 865. 35 per troy ounce was set in the a. m. fixing.

However, when indexed for inflation, the 1980 high corresponds to a price of $ 2, 305. 18 in 2011 dollars, thus the 1980 record still holds in real terms.