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All were scratching the mountain dirt for "color" when some electrifying news came drifting over from the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada - some "blasted blue stuff" that had been found was actually a fabulous silver strike, the legendary Comstock Lode, probably the greatest single mineral strike in history.
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The Comstock Lode is one of the most important mining discoveries in American history, in output and in significance. ... According to the 1880 census, of 2,770 men involved in the mining industry on the Comstock Lode, only 770 were American born. Of the 2,000 foreign born, Irish led with 816 miners, and 640 were English...
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Huge silver-mining area near Virginia City, Nevada, that yielded about $300 million in silver and gold ore. ... Elsewhere on the Web: The Comstock Lode; Learn all about this famous silver strike.
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A fellow miner, Henry Comstock, stumbled upon their find and claimed it was on his property. The gullible McLaughlin and O'Reilly believed him and assured Comstock a place in history when the giant lode ... Introduction to The Roar and The Silence - A History of Virginia City and The Comstock Lode, By Ronald M. James...
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Working the Comstock Lode was extraordinarily dangerous. Apart from the risk of cave-ins and underground fires, miners had to worry about underground flooding. The temperature of water below 700 feet rose to 108 degrees.
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Something is amiss. ... Suite101 technical staff are on the case and will rectify this shortly. Thanks for your patience. ... san diego's soviet era attack submarine...
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Map of the Comstock Lode and the claims on it in 1880. From Hess, R., et al. Mining History and Place Names of the Comstock Area: A Field Trip Guidebook. ... This map was originally published in Smith, G.H. The History of the Comstock Lode, 1850-1920. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Bulletin 37. Nevada Bureau of Mines...
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Discover colorful Viriginia City, the legendary Nevada mining town at the heart of the Comstock Lode. ... It is maintained in its original condition, as it was in the boom days of the 1870s, when the Comstock Lode made it the West's premier mining metropolis, with a population of 30,000.
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