Mining eras clash on Nevada's historic Comstock

[jeff of pa]

VIRGINIA CITY, Nev. (AP) — More than 150 years after the discovery of one of the world's richest silver veins touched off a mining frenzy that drew thousands of people west and made Virginia City a wealthy boomtown, a mining company wants to resume digging for riches in the dusty hills southeast of Reno.

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. They aren't being met with open arms.

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[Salvor6]

With gold inching to $2,000/ounce I say "mine baby mine."