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Virginia City, uninc. village (1990 pop. 920), seat of Storey co., W Nev.; settled 1859. Now largely a tourist center, it was the site of the Comstock Lode Comstock Lode, richest known U.S. silver deposit, W Nevada, on Mt. Davidson in the Virginia Range. It is said to have been discovered in 1857 by Ethan Allen Grosh and Hosea Ballou Grosh, sons of a Pennsylvania minister and veterans of the California gold fields who ..... Click the link for more information. and a major hub for the mining of silver and gold. It had some 11,000 inhabitants in 1880. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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During his tour of the great silver mines of Virginia City, Nevada in 1876, journalist and geologist Eliot Lord was both impressed and horrified by the "cool" detachment of Cornish miners as they risked their lives underground in pursuit of hard currency. He goes on to say, "I worked with the Company's President, CEO Steve Parent, COO Dave Salari and Rana Medhi in the construction and operation of the Plum Mine's cyanide heap leach operation in the Comstock lode, near Virginia City, Nevada, in 2003 and we worked very well together. According to General Manager of Plum Mining, Scott Jolcover, John Mackay (Mackay School of Mines, Reno, Nevada), one of the Silver Kings (Barons) of the Famous Comstock Lode in Virginia City, Nevada, said, "Ore bodies in the Comstock Lode were thinly scattered through wide lodes like plums in a charity pudding. |
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