Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A rich vein of gold and silver discovered in 1859 at Virginia City in western Nevada. Because of wasteful mining techniques, it was largely abandoned by 1898.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
lode .
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The story of the Comstock Lode is a window into an American 19th-century world of anarchic boomtowns, cutthroat capitalism, astonishing engineering feats and westward settlement.
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But unlike the miners who used picks and shovels to chisel away at the underground pocket of silver and gold known as the Comstock Lode, the company's plans are for open pit mining.
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But unlike the miners who used picks and shovels to chisel away at the underground pocket of silver and gold known as the Comstock Lode, the company's plans are for open pit mining.
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But unlike the scrappy miners who used picks and shovels to chisel away at the massive, underground pocket of silver and gold known as the Comstock Lode, the company's plans are for open pit mining.
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But unlike the miners who used picks and shovels to chisel away at the underground pocket of silver and gold known as the Comstock Lode, the company's plans are for open pit mining.
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But unlike the scrappy miners who used picks and shovels to chisel away at the massive, underground pocket of silver and gold known as the Comstock Lode, the company's plans are for open pit mining.
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Images capture famous Nevadans as well as scenes from one of the world's greatest bonanzas: a massive, underground pocket of silver and gold known as the Comstock Lode in Virginia City, about 20 miles southeast of Reno.
Fore, right! 2010
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Images capture famous Nevadans as well as scenes from one of the world's greatest bonanzas: a massive, underground pocket of silver and gold known as the Comstock Lode in Virginia City, about 20 miles southeast of Reno.
Fore, right! 2010
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The flap is rooted in Virginia City's late 1800s heyday, when the town was at the epicenter of the huge Comstock Lode gold and silver mining rush.
Residents of Old Mining Town Want Gold to Stay in Them Thar Hills Jim Carlton 2011
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This was the 'Big Bonanza' of the Comstock Lode and the last of them.
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