The discovery of silver at the Comstock Lode in 1859 led to a population boom that was an impetus to the creation of Nevada Territory out of western Utah Territory in 1861.

* 1889 – In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.

Several short-lived boom towns sprang up during the late 19th and early 20th centuries to mine gold and silver.

Though the silver age of the city was to come, trade began to boom and that boom continued to increase in the 17th century.

The region experienced a boom when the Chañarcillo silver mine was discovered in 1832.

He aimed to tap into the traffic from the silver mining boom at Silver Mountain City.

The success of the Cerro Gordo mines caused Keeler to boom until silver prices plummeted in the late 1800s.

The name Carson City was given to the post office by Thomas Scott, who had been in Carson City, Nevada, during the gold and silver mining boom days.

He joined the Nevada Bar in 1898, and made his fortune in the 1900 silver boom in Tonopah, becoming manager of the Tonopah Mining Company.

Under Abbot Heinrich Heidenreich the territory greatly advanced due to the silver mines which gained importance during the economic boom of the 13th century.

In the years following, the silver boom and Elkhorn's prosperity began to lessen as the desire for silver decreased.

Until the 1880s, the Ute controlled nearly all of Colorado west of the continental divide, a situation that eroded after the silver boom of 1879.

The silver mining boom of the 1880s came to an end with the passage by the U. S. Congress of the McKinley Tariff in October 1890.

In 1892 he moved to the silver boom town of Creede, Colorado, where he managed the Denver Exchange Club until the town was destroyed by fire.

It was clearly in competition with the town further south, Queenstown, and while the silver boom lasted it was known as the Silver City.

The city was riding on the coattails of the still expanding economic boom caused by the extraction of silver from the Comstock Lode.

Mining increased in England, with a silver boom in the 12th century helping to fuel the expansion of the money supply.

A new colonial official José de Gálvez came to New Spain and established new laws that caused a boom in silver mining activity in the 1770s.

Escaped from Soviet Russia during World War I, came to settle in Canada by 1932 when he was active in the mineral rush to Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, the site of a silver and radium boom town.

The boom started in 1879 with the discovery of silver at Leadville.

Over 82 million dollars worth of silver was mined during the period, making it the second great mineral boom in the state, and coming twenty years after the earlier and shorter Colorado Gold Rush of 1859.

It peaked at No. 7 and sold more than three million copies in the United States, more than their previous four releases combined ( it was also certified silver in the UK ).

is an alternative fashion trend of blonde, pink or silver hair and tanned skin among young Japanese women that peaked in popularity around the year 2000.

The third album The Promise followed in 1991, which peaked at No. 10 in the UK and earned a silver disc.

** as worn on peaked cap: blue-white-red with a five-pointed silver star in the middle

Guardia uniforms underwent some changes in the 1950s and 1960s, with officers adopting the US M1942 light khaki service dress, comprising tunic, slacks and a matching peaked cap with brown-japanned chinstrap and peak, or black dress cap with gold chinstrap, black peak with gold leaf embroidery for field and general ranks ( the GN Chief Director had additional French-style embroidery on the cap band ), and silver triangular national cap badge.

Also, after not releasing a single in the United Kingdom for almost 11 months, Atomic Kitten released their 9th single, titled It's Ok !, peaked at # 3 on the charts, and eventually went silver.

It also peaked at number 44 on the Dutch Albums Chart ; it peaked at number 23 on the UK Albums Chart, where it was certified silver by the BPI for sale of 60, 000.

Rising inflation, financially draining wars in Europe, the ongoing aftermath of the expulsion of the Jews and Moors from Spain, and Spain's growing dependency on the gold and silver imports, combined to cause several bankruptcies that caused economic crisis in the country, especially in heavily burdened Castile.

But as the Byzantine Empire's economic influence declined, the European world tended to see silver, rather than gold, as the currency of choice, leading to the development of a silver standard.

However, many Americans believed bimetallism ( making both gold and silver legal tender ) was necessary to the nation's economic health.

However, during the economic chaos of the Panic of 1873, the price of silver dropped significantly, but the Mint would accept none for striking into legal tender.

This change reflected the shift of the Bolivian economy away from the largely exhausted silver mines of Potosí to the exploitation of tin near Oruro, and resulting shifts in the distribution of economic and political power among various national elites.

Helena has a long record of economic stability with its history as being the state capital and being founded in an area rich in silver and lead deposits.

Because of the silver ore deposits in the Erzgebirge, Zwickau developed in the 15th and 16th centuries and grew to be an important economic and cultural centre of Saxony.

From silver to tin to coca, Bolivia has enjoyed only occasional periods of economic diversification.

Under French economic plans, mines yielding gold, silver, and tin as well as the farming of rice, corn, and tea powered Tonkin's economy.

As a supporter of using greenbacks and free silver to inflate the currency and alleviate economic distress in the rural districts, Stevenson balanced the ticket headed by Cleveland, the hard-money, gold-standard supporter.

Careful searchers can also find crystals of wolframite, a tungsten ore that was mined briefly during World War II when access to other sources was cut off, and small grains of topaz, which caused the earlier silver miners of the area considerable economic grief by wearing out their diamond-tipped drills more quickly than anticipated.

Without using their considerable hydropower output, silver mining in the Harz would never have been able to attain its major economic significance.

In that year's presidential election, the Democrats nominated William Jennings Bryan, who focused ( as Populists rarely did ) on the free silver issue as a solution to the economic depression and the maldistribution of power.

Gold and silver, and sometimes other precious metals, are often seen as hedges against both inflation and economic downturn.

It came at the end of a series of economic setbacks: the Black Friday panic of 1869, the Chicago fire of 1871, the outbreak of equine influenza in 1872, and demonetization of silver in 1873.

Mircea strengthened the power of the state and organized the different high offices, promoted economic development, increased the state's revenue, and minted silver money that enjoyed wide circulation not only inside the country but also in neighboring countries.

Francisco de Toledo also ended the indigenous state of Vilcabamba, executing the Inca Túpac Amaru, and promoted economic development from the commercial monopoly and the mineral extraction, mainly, from silver mines of Potosí.

Another economic change instituted by Wang — a fairly disastrous one — was to issue 28 types of coins, made of gold, silver, tortoise shells, sea shells, and copper.

It became the economic center of northern Albania, its craftsmen producing fabric, silk, arms, and silver artifacts.

World War I and the world economic crisis of the 1930s brought about temporary or permanent abolition of the convertibility of bank notes to silver and gold coins.

In dealing with the economic crisis caused by the Panic, Packer vehemently blamed banks and the free issue of paper money over gold and silver coinage.

The only other significant economic activity, providing a significant number of jobs, is realized by Minera Tizapa, S. A. de C. V., which mines zinc, lead and copper, with small amounts of gold and silver.