OVERVIEW
“THE PLACE TO LOOK FOR GOLD IS IN THE SHADOW OF A HEADFRAME"
– Old mining saying.
The best place to look for gold is where it has already been found before. The Comstock District is a region of historically and economically significant gold and silver mineralization in northwestern Nevada, about 40 kilometers southeast of Reno.
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PRODUCTION RECORD
Tonogold believes that a substantial mineable resource of gold and silver remains in the Comstock Mining District.
Tonogold began the modern drill testing of the Comstock District on September 20, 2020. For detailed drill results to date click on news.
Looking down Gold Canyon during the bonanza times.
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3 MINERALIZED STRUCTURES DEFINE THE DISTRICT
- The Comstock Lode.
- The Occidental/Brunswick Lode.
- The Silver City Spur.
THE COMSTOCK LODE
THE OCCIDENTAL / BRUNSWICK LODE
A gold and silver mineralized epithermal system in a fault about 1.5 kilometers east of the main Comstock Lode and running parallel to it. The main Comstock mining companies made a large-scale attempt to exploit the Occidental/Brunswick Lode in the mid-1890s, and although they discovered enough mineralization to motivate significant exploration, they never found a bonanza (50+ g/t Au Eq) that would have tipped them back into profitability. The changed circumstances of modern mining make the Occidental/Brunswick Lode an attractive gold-silver exploration target. Tonogold’s drills recently hit 25 m of 13.49 g/t Au and 38.4 g/t Ag mineralization close to the surface of the Occidental/Brunswick Lode.
THE SILVER CITY SPUR
A branch of the Comstock Lode that runs southeast and connects with the southwestern-most splays of the Occidental Lode. The Silver City Spur contains the Lucerne Deposit, a fully permitted open pit mine containing an estimated 300,000 ounces of recoverable gold and 2,000,000 ounces of recoverable silver with a modern Merrill Crowe treatment facility on hand and available.
