The TV pitchmen are urging everybody to buy silver, supposedly the best defense against the turbulent times coming. It reminds me of the first great silver rush and the Comstock lode of 1859. In 1… ...

Ron James, Chair of the Historic Landmarks Committee, talked about the discovery of the Comstock Lode, the site that sparked Nevada’s gold and silver rush.

The Comstock Lode has yielded 9 million ounces of gold and 220 million ounces of silver, worth about $12 billion at today's prices. The wealth it generated went to help finance the Union cause ...

The Comstock Lode and Virginia City in its heyday still fascinates us today. When you look at items of the time – posters from Piper’s Opera House, photos of the lively saloons, Mark Twain’s articles ...

Historic document from 1859, dating to the very beginning of the Comstock Lode silver rush in the U.S. and including mention of the most important mining claim – the Ophir ($16,875). Comstock ...

Just as "Sutter's Mill" will always evoke the image of the California gold rush of 1849, so the "Comstock Lode" will always mean silver, even if most people know nothing more about it than that.

A new NYSE-quoted junior miner is looking to rework the old Comstock Lode silver/gold mining district in Nevada and has already poured its first doré bullion late last month.