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Nevada
Comstock dumps, Virginia City
Mineral locality Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Crystals and minerals
Coins and tokens
GoldPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0), West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), BLM Alaska (Public domain).
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Why this spot
Dumps of the great 1860s silver lode surrounding Virginia City and Gold Hill
The Comstock is exhaustively documented; collecting is a matter of land status.
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
open shafts, unstable dumps
Keep exploring nearby
More spots in this area.