19 Facts About Comstock Lode

Comstock Lode is a lode of silver ore located under the eastern slope of Mount Davidson, a peak in the Virginia Range in Virginia City, Nevada, which was the first major discovery of silver ore in the United States and named after American miner Henry Comstock.

Comstock Lode is notable not just for the immense fortunes it generated and the large role those fortunes had in the growth of Nevada and San Francisco, but for the advances in mining technology that it spurred, such as square set timbering and the Washoe process for extracting silver from ore.

The east slope of the range forms the footwall of the Comstock Lode, and is composed of diorite, while the hanging wall is composed of andesite, which the miners called "porphyry".

The heads of both these canyons form the north and south ends of what is known as the Comstock Lode, defined by the Ophir Discovery and the Gold Hill Discovery.

When Henry T P Comstock learned of the death of the Grosh brothers, he claimed the cabin and the lands as his own.

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Comstock Lode examined the contents of the trunk but thought nothing of the documents as he was not an educated man.

Comstock Lode continued to seek out diggings of local miners working in the area, as he knew the Grosh brothers' find was still unclaimed.

Unhappy with his current claim on Gold Hill, Comstock Lode made threats and managed to work himself and his partner, Immanuel "Manny" Penrod, into a deal that granted them interest on the claim.

Comstock Lode then worked as a cook at the Green mine in California.

Comstock Lode erected a stone hotel on B Street in Virginia City called the Virginia House, and became a dealer of mining stocks.

Comstock Lode began having visions and began a tunnel into the Sierras near Genoa, Nevada, expecting to strike a richer vein than the Comstock.

Comstock Lode eventually lost everything, was declared insane, and died in a private asylum in Woodbridge, California.

Comstock Lode opened trade good stores in Carson City and Silver City.

Unlike most silver ore deposits, which occur in long thin veins, those of the Comstock Lode occurred in discrete masses often hundreds of feet thick.

The Comstock Lode eventually developed the Washoe process of using steam-heated iron pans, which reduced the weeks required by the patio process to hours.

Meanwhile, through the early years of the 20th century, ownership of mineral rights along the length of the Comstock Lode was consolidated primarily into a handful of companies, most of them privately held.

Deep underground, hard rock mining was a constantly evolving development for the miners and their companies, and the tactics developed on the Comstock Lode became famous within the mining industry, worldwide.

The first was the USS Comstock Lode which was launched in 1945 and the second is the USS Comstock Lode which was launched in 1988.

Comstock Lode later went on to found the Anaconda Mining Company, a Butte, Montana copper corporation.