Mining Hall of Fame Members
Members by Induction Date| Thomas P. Aitken | Arguably the most successful small scale mine developer during the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush; worked both lodes and placers in Alaska and the Yukon. |
| John Beaton | Co-discovered the Iditarod district with William Dikeman. |
| Earl H. Beistline | A mining educator at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks and a lifelong promoter of the mining industry in Alaska. |
| Rhinehart M. "Rhiny" Berg | He discovered the important Bornite copper-cobalt deposit in the Brooks Range. |
| Clarence Berry | Prominent Klondike and Interior Alaska miner |
| Stephen Birch | Founder and developer of Kennecott Copper Mines |
| Jack C. Boswell | Engineered the development of the rich Cripple deposit and helped build the giant FE machines that were used to dig deep placer deposits. Published historian of USSR&M era. |
| Frederick Bradley | A successful manager of the Treadwell and A-J Mines, Juneau. |
| Alfred H. Brooks | The Chief Geologist of U.S. Geological Survey in Alaska. |
| John Brynteson | One of Nome's 'Three Lucky Swedes' - an experienced hard-rock miner and the discoverer of the Cape Nome district. |
| Wallace M. Cady | A USGS geologist who, with colleagues, produced The Central Kuskokwim Region, Alaska, a geological framework of a 5,000 square mile area centered on Alaska's premier mercury mining region. |
| Ellen (Nellie) Cashman | The barely five foot tall Irish immigrant Ellen (Nellie) Cashman was a quintessential gold mining stampeder who participated in many of the North American gold-silver rushes of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. |
| Earnest B. Collins | Pursued a long and successful career in interior Alaska as a placer miner, a lawyer, a Alaska Territorial legislator, and a delegate at the Alaska Constitutional Convention. |
| James D. Crawford | A well organized manager who acquired new dredge properties and guided the FE company into a successful post-World War II period of gold mining. |
| Jack Dalton | As one of the premier horse freighters of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush era, Jack Dalton opened up the Dalton Trail for prospectors and traders. |
| James K. Davidson | Designed and built the Miocene and Davidson ditch systems. |
| William C. Douglass | A mining engineer and an excellent manager and motivator of people who spent several years working at Kennecott, Alaska, leaving as General Superintendent of the Kennecott Copper Mine. |
| Wesley E. Dunkle | An innovative Kennecott engineer and geologist, and the co-founder of Star Air Service, the predecessor to Alaska Airlines. |
| Roy B. Earling | Built the pre-World War II FE Company into one of the most efficient and successful dredge mining firms in the world. |
| Frederick (Fred) Eastaugh | Nome-born Frederick Eastaugh was an Alaskan accountant, a ship's officer for the Alaska Steamship Company, and a mining attorney who spent most of his professional career in southeast Alaska. |
| Herbert L. Faulkner | With a law career spanning almost seventy years, Faulkner represented almost every major mining company operating in Alaska during his lifetime. |
| Howard Franklin | A Fortymile country prospector who discovered the first "bedrock" placer gold in Alaska. |
| Wendell P. Hammon | Installed the first of three large bucketline stacker dredges in the Cape Nome district. |
| Arthur Harper | A well known and respected trader, prospector and promoter of the Yukon. |
| Richard Harris | An Irish immigrant who co-discovered gold in the Juneau district. |
| Charles "Chuck" Herbert | The premier Alaska miner of his generation. |
| Luther and Harriet Hess | Luther was a first rate mining lawyer and an active mine developer in several interior Alaska gold camps. Harriet was a mining educator and the pioneer regent of the University of Alaska system. |
| Phillip R. Holdsworth | Alaska's first Commissioner of Natural Resources. |
| Evan Jones | A Welsh immigrant who became the father of Alaska coal mining. |
| Joe Juneau | A Native of Quebec, a California 49er, and the co-discoverer of gold in the Juneau district. |
| Kawa.ée | A Tlingit leader who brought George Pilz gold-rich rock samples from Gastineau Channel area. |
| Charles D. Lane | A tough, honest, and wealthy miner and lawyer who helped the 'Three Luck Swedes' in their legal battles. |
| Erik Lindblom | The eldest of the 'Three Lucky Swedes' - a tailor. |
| Jafet Lindeberg | The Norwegian of the 'Three Lucky Swedes' - the president and manager of the very successful Pioneer Mining Company. |
| Robert F. Lyman | An independent operator of small scale mercury lodes, but also the manager of Alaska's largest mercury mine at Red Devil on the Kuskokwim River. |
| Frank G. Manley | A highly successful miner in the Fairbanks, Hot Springs, and Flat districts, and the founder of the First National Bank in Fairbanks. |
| Alfred Mayo | 'Captain Al' - a well-known Yukon River trader and prospector. |
| Reuben (Fred) McClellan | Organized the mining partnership that made the initial discoveries and negotiated the sales of the mineral claims that became the Kennecott mines in Alaska. |
| John Labbe 'Johnny' McGinn | A smart mining lawyer who, with James Wickersham, cleaned up corruption in Nome and financed many small gold and silver projects in interior Alaska and the Yukon Territory, Canada. |
| Jack McQuesten | Known as the 'Father of the Yukon' - a grubstaker for prospectors. |
| John B. Mertie Jr. | A leading U.S. Geological Survey geologist and a world expert on platinum. |
| Genevieve Parker Metcalfe | A breakthrough woman mining engineer who developed the initial plans for FE Company's Fairbanks operations, wrote a landmark thesis on Alaska placer mining, and was a champion athlete and scholar. |
| John Minook | A Creole-Athabascan prospector who discovered the Rampart district. |
| Peter Miscovich | A Croatian immigrant who settled in Flat, Alaska in 1910 and pioneered the use of hydraulic mining techniques. |
| Andrew Olson | A Swedish immigrant, an innovator at Flat and a long-time miner of platinum. |
| Edward Olson | A placer gold miner in Iditarod district, then the general manager of The Goodnews Bay Mining Company. |
| Lars Ostnes | A Norwegian immigrant who mined in the Iditarod district and developed placer mines in remote western Alaska for over 50 years. |
| Earnest Patty | A professor at, and later president of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and the manager of a placer dredging venture. |
| Felix Pedro | Discovered the Fairbanks district in 1902. |
| Earl R. Pilgrim | Built the pre-World War II FE Company into one of the most efficient and successful dredge mining firms in the world. |
| George Pilz | A German immigrant who sent Juneau and Harris into the Juneau area to prospect. |
| Chester W. Purington | An acclaimed international mining engineer who wrote a treatise on Alaska placer fields. |
| Fannie Quigley | A prospector renowned for her bush skills and a legendary Kantishna character. |
| Joseph Rudd | Shortly after Statehood, Rudd drafted the State's mining law on State lands, and was highly sought for his expertise on Natural Resource issues throughout his career. He was killed in a plane crash while returning from a trip to Juneau. |
| Russell Schaefer | One of Alaska's 'tough guy' prospectors who accomplished much in the Kuskokwim Mercury Belt of southwest Alaska. |
| Walter Smith Henry Wuya | Co-discovered platinum in the Goodnews Bay District. |
| Earl T. Stannard | A mining engineer who designed innovative new ore recovery equipment and became the CEO of the Kennecott Copper Corporation. |
| Benjamin D. Stewart | A State and Federal mining administrator and an Alaska constitutional delegate. |
| Norman C. Stines | Planned and supervised USSR&M activities in the Fairbanks district. |
| David Strandberg | A Swedish immigrant who joined the Klondike gold rush in 1898 and the Iditarod rush of 1910. Built the placer mining dynasty Strandberg & Sons, Inc. |
| William Sulzer | Bill Sulzer became a prominent New York attorney and politician, and briefly served as Governor of New York. The ever optimistic Sulzer mined copper in southeast Alaska and developed gold in the Chandalar district. |
| Bartlett Thane | The founder and promoter of the world's largest gold mine, the Gastineau at Juneau. |
| Herman Tofty | A Norwegian immigrant who worked prospects near Manley Hot Springs. |
| John Treadwell | Founder of the Treadwell Mines, Juneau. |
| John Gustavus (Gus ) Uotila | By 1915, Gus Uotila was known as a tough Iditarod teamster. He mentored placer mining operations throughout Alaska, and became a respected overland freighter. |
| Emil Usibelli | Founder of the Usibelli Coal Mine, Inc., and a civic benefactor in Fairbanks. |
| Livingston Wernecke | A geologist-engineer for the Bradley companies of Juneau. |
| Simon Wible | He mined gold, built water canals, and became a wealthy man in California. When the gold rush began, he pioneered hydraulic mine technology on the Kenai Peninsula. |
| Ernest N. Wolff | A prospector, miner, author, public servant, and professor and administrator at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. |
| Kyosuke (Frank) Yasuda and Nevelo Yasuda | A Japanese immigrant and his Eskimo wife, who discovered gold at Chandalar and later founded the community of Beaver. |