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Title: Mines and Mills of the Comstock Region, Western Nevada
Author: Mary B. Ansari
Year: 1989
Series: Camp Nevada Monograph No. 8
Format: 101 pages
“I was very pleased and flattered to be asked to say a few words about Mary Ansari’s publication on the Mines and Mills of the Comstock Region. Mary has a long, abiding interest in the history of mining at the Comstock. She came to the University of Nevada, Reno twenty years ago, and she has been researching obscure sources of information on the Comstock ever since. She has previously completed a study of Storey County place names, and this work is a continuation of her research on a fascinating area and time in Nevada’s history.
I have often wondered about the name and history of a particular old mine or mill site along the Carson River or down Sixmile Canyon, but I never seem to have the proper reference source in hand. This new book fills that need, the desire of a “local” to know more of the mining history on his doorstep. Scholars will find much of interest in the book, but many of the thousands of visitors to the Comstock Lode at Virginia City will want to have it at hand to give them a hint of the past glories of Nevada’s best known mining camp. And geologists, geographers, and cartographers will find it an invaluable source of information for such diverse uses as mineral exploration, map making, and historical preservation.
The mining rush to Nevada that began with the discovery of the Comstock Lode and nearby mining areas helped Nevada Territory become a state in 1864. But for all of its importance to the state, some aspects of its geology, history, and geography have been little studied. This book helps to fill that need.”
(by Larry J. Garside, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology; University of Nevada, Reno)
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