Comstock Mining Inc
Silver City, Nevada creates website to fight Comstock Mining, Inc. pit mining threat
Submitted by editor on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 11:48pm
A website that dedicates itself to Silver City and proposed gold mining around the historic Lyon County community has been launched.
SilverCityNvBlogspot.com was developed by a group of town residents with the idea of providing a citizen point of view as Comstock Mining, Inc., fueled by record gold prices, looks to change the land-use designation of a parcel it now occupies and has been doing exploratory drilling.
Opinion: Small Community of Silver City Faces Pit Mining Threat
Submitted by editor on Wed, 03/09/2011 - 3:51pmBy Erich Obermayr
Silver City, Nevada —population around 200 — is a small, unincorporated community in rural northwestern Nevada. It is located along State Route 342, in Gold Canyon, 3.5 miles from Virginia City. It lies within the Virginia City National Historic Landmark and the Comstock Historic District. The nearest large cities are Reno, 20 miles to the north, and Carson City, 9 miles to the southwest.
Eminent domain amendment on mining goes before legislative committee today
Submitted by editor on Mon, 02/14/2011 - 2:47amA number of Silver City residents will go before lawmakers today to show their support of a proposed amendment to Nevada's eminent domain law that would remove the ability of a private person or business to exercise the law for the purposes of mining.
The current law on eminent domain (Chapter 37 of the Nevada Revised Statues) allows private individuals to take private land from property owners without their consent, for the purposes of mining. Testimony on this bill will be heard by the Judiciary Committee of the Nevada State Legislature today at 9 a.m. in room 2149.
