It was an important silver ore mining area.
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Virginia City
The Comstock Lode was first made public in 1859. it was named after a man named after Henry Comstock who had claimed it was his land when two Irish miners panned and found gold. Comstock sold out early and only made a small amount of money.
The Comstock Lode (a major discovery of silver and gold ore) was near the present location of Virginia City, near Reno, Nevada. Carson City (site of a US mint) is located just to the South.
it lured thousands of California miners to Nevada.
The mining of precious metals in the west