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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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My brother is a rock nut. Last week he bought up an estate that had been in a home that went into foreclosure after the death of the owner. There was over 4000 pounds of mixed mine samples and agate's. In it was 3 ore slabs from the Big Bonanza mine! (part of the Comstock lode) So for everyone out there that ever wondered where all the silver came form here you are. The Bonanza Mine yielded around 53% silver and 47% gold....The largest concentration and the highest content of ore in the Comstock lode. You can see the gold stripes in the silver ore on the second photo. This rock slab is only a little under 1/4 in thick and is just a little bigger than my hand (It weight is 15.3 oz)    omstock lode) |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That's pretty cool, I never heard that it had gold in it too...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3499 Posts |
Very cool! Thanks for showing us this.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
1551 Posts |
It was a great find, I bought them right up from my bother. I posted them just because you normally only see them in a museum.
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Valued Member
United States
187 Posts |
Your right, I never have seen silver in a natural state, Thanks!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
618 Posts |
That is Awesome. Cool Stuff Right there.
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Moderator
 United States
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That is definitely something that I do not see every day. Thanks for sharing!  |
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Moderator
United States
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That's very neat, something I've never seen before.
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Valued Member
United States
230 Posts |
If memory serves me correctly the Comstock started out as a gold mine and got played out. Than somebody realized all the crap they had been mucking out wes silver.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Yes you are correct.They had a blue gunk that had a lot of silver in it,many miners thought it was garbage. Out of all the mines less than 13% posted a profit, and only 5 had solid veins in them. Or so the history books state.
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Valued Member
Australia
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Some really great samples. I wonder why no one ever melted that all down? Back in those days not many were thinking about keeping rocks with Silver or Gold for the fun of it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Well as of yesterday I now have about 35 pounds of different silver mine samples, all from the Virgina City area. The only thing that I can think of is many of the mines where traded on the San Francisco stock Exchange. Maybe the samples where for verification of ore content. They all have mine numbers on them, and they match the mine numbers on file.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I just am waiting for more from my brother. It takes awile to go thru 5000 to 6000 pounds of rock.  |
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Belarus
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Coin in fetus-form.... pretty awesome
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Posted 02/15/2010 1:07 pm
