Comstock Mining Update — March 18, 2020
On March 3 2020, with its stock at 57 cents and falling following the 5-1 reverse split on November 25 2019, CMI issued a press release emphasizing that after ten years of unprofitably extracting...
Will the Real Corrado De Gasperis Please Stand Up?
In September 2017 the Carson City TEDx committee chose Corrado De Gasperis as a speaker for an event at the Brewery Arts Center. When residents of Silver City expressed dismay and explained that their...
Comstock Mining Update — May 31, 2019
Hey, why isn't Comstock Mining Inc on the map?
It's not a fair world. You'd think that after spending nearly a quarter of a Billion Dollars of investors' money without making a dime in...
Comstock Mining Update — February 4, 2019
Comstock Mining Inc stock took a jump! After falling to 13¢ as recently as January 24th, the share price burst up to 19¢ before resuming its decline; at launch time it was at 17¢....
Comstock Mining Update – September 26, 2018
It's Alive! (but barely)
After months of inactivity, Comstock Mining Inc., has stirred in its grave. Rigor mortis finally setting in? A few microbes still alive in its gut?
Here's a comment from the Yahoo 'Conversations'...
Comstock Mining Update — May 26, 2018
Third District Court Hearing Explores Keller and Hastings
Potential Conflict of Interest
A hearing in the Comstock Residents Association lawsuit against Lyon County and Comstock Mining, Inc., was held Monday, April 23, 2018 in Lyon...
Comstock Mining Update – December 12, 2017
Supreme Court Rules for CRA vs. Lyon County and Comstock Mining Inc.
Comstock Residents Association won a decision at the Nevada Supreme Court on December 11. One part of the complaint against Lyon County and...
Comstock Mining Update – November 1, 2017
Bulletin!
In his 3rd Quarter conference call, in addition to the usual quarterly loss, Corrado De Gasperis announced a 5 to 1 reverse stock split, to be effective November 10th.
This is good news for...
Comstock Mining Update – June 15, 2017
This Update was prompted by Comstock Mining Inc annual meeting held at the Gold Hill Hotel on June 1.
Those of us who live on the Comstock know how rich our communities are in what...
Comstock Mining Update January 20, 2017
Isn't there a mechanism to rid the New York Stock Exchange of the corpses underfoot? Apparently not, as Comstock Mining Inc , the gang that couldn't mine straight, has become the corporate equivalent of...
Comstock Mining Update — October 31, 2016
The rumor dancing eagerly, gladly, euphorically up and down Gold Canyon from Virginia City to Dayton and then back again, is that Comstock Mining Inc is dead.
This judgment is uttered as gospel over the bars at...
Comstock Mining Update – July 31, 2016
We failed.
For more than five years residents of the Comstock tried to keep an upstart mining company from digging an enormous pit mine in the the Virginia City National Historic Landmark just above Devil's...
Comstock Mining Update — May 24, 2016
Having completed the unprofitable five year fiasco of the Lucerne Pit — with the Grand Finale of collapsing Highway 342 into it — Comstock Mining Inc. (or is it LLC?) laid off most of its employees...
Comstock Mining Update – December 24, 2015
On December 4th Comstock Mining Inc issued a press release headlined: Comstock Mining Completes State Route Realignment Ahead of Schedule
In previous years CMI loaded the head frame of the New York Mine with cheap Chinese...
Comstock Mining Update — October 26, 2015
While most attention has been paid recently to the ongoing destruction of the Virginia City National Historic Landmark, another historic Comstock landmark has been severely damaged as well.
Having failed to obtain a gaming license,...
Comstock Mining Update – September 30, 2015
Highway 342 Closed Again
On September 28 NCOT announced that State Route 342 through Gold Hill will be closed again September 29 through November 12, with periodic lane closures and continuing construction in the roadway shoulder...
Comstock Mining Update — August 1, 2015
An amazing turnaround: Comstock Mining Inc's share price had tanked at the NYSE, down, down, down from $1.11 on January 16 to 38¢ on June 28. And then on July 29 it spurted suddenly...
Comstock Mining Update – May 31, 2015
Early in the week of May 3, persons unknown erected a sign near the junction of Main Street, Silver City (Highway 342), with the Truck Route (Highway 341) blaming Comstock Mining Inc., the Storey...
Comstock Mining Update – April 28, 2015
The fiasco of the Lucerne Pit is a good example of what's wrong with the way government monitors mining in Nevada. We can thank Comstock Mining Inc. for that, if for nothing else; if...
Comstock Mining Update March 16, 2015
Highway 342 through lower Gold Hill (Main Street) was closed to all vehicle traffic on February 27 when the famously fragile Silver Hill mineshaft subsided once again beneath the pavement adjacent to the Lucerne...
Comstock Mining Update — February 25, 2015
On Sunday February 8 Nevada Department of Transportation engineers were called to lower Gold Hill to examine pavement cracking and slumping on Highway 342, the historic foot track, then wagon road that became Main...
Comstock Mining Update — February 9, 2015
Storey County is an interesting specimen in the governmental petri dish we call Nevada. At its north end, the county is all aglow at the arrival of the Tesla electric battery megafactory, thanking its...
Comstock Mining Update — October 15, 2014
What's Wrong With This Picture?
Everything.
Press Reports
Reno News & Review article #1
Reno Gazette-Journal article
Las Vegas Review-Journal article
Reno News & Review article #2
Reno Gazette-Journal Op-Ed
It was produced, we are informed, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of...
Comstock Mining Update October 9 2014
At the end of September CMI seemed on the brink of bidding us the Big Bye-Bye once again.
Previously last-minute stock offerings have provided the ready cash for the company to make it through the next...
Comstock Mining Update — August 22, 2014
At its meeting of August 21 the Storey County Planning Commission voted to recommend approval of Comstock Mining Inc's request for amendments to its SUP. The issue will come before County Commissioners McBride, Gilman...
Comstock Mining Update – April 2, 2014
Before <a title="2013 SEC Year-End Re is completely inaccurate and will be corrected by the company. In addition the NDEP-BAPC has not issued its final determination." — Francisco Vega, NDEP Supervisor, Compliance & Enforcement,...
CMI’s Corrado De Gasperis on “Nevada Newsmakers”
Recent Developments
A March 4 CMI announcement about the quest for further investors
CMI press release dated March 11 puts 2013 net loss at $21.3 million
The transcript of De Gasperis’ conference call about the Q4 filing...
Comstock Mining Update – February 7, 2014
On Friday January 31 the Comstock Residents Association filed a Complaint in Lyon County District Court asking the judge to reverse the Lyon County Commissioners' January 2 decision to grant Comstock Mining Inc's...
Comstock Mining Update – January 15, 2014
The fallout from the Lyon County Commission's January 2 meeting was not long in appearing. On January 21, Theo McCormick of Silver City announced his resignation from the Lyon County School Board:
...
Comstock Mining update January 15, 2014
At its regularly scheduled meeting on January 2, the Lyon County Commission broke all precedent by ignoring its Planning Commission's recommendation to deny Comstock Mining Inc's Master Plan Amendment and Zoning change requests...
Comstock Mining Update – December 10, 2013
The struggle over pit mining in the Virginia City National Historic Landmark has shifted south through Devil's Gate from Storey to Lyon County.
At last month's scheduled hearing before the Lyon County Planning...
Comstock Mining Update – August 12, 2013
Will this be the greatest feat of magic to be performed in Nevada since Siegfried and Roy first turned that tiger into thin air?
Is Comstock Mining Inc about to disappear?
In its 1st Quarter...
Comstock Mining Update – June 28, 2013
On June 27, the day following our Meet 'n' Greet at Maynard Station, a couple of dozen Comstock Residents Association supporters joined other member groups of PLAN, the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada, in...
Comstock Mining Update – June 27, 2013
On June 26, as Comstock Mining Inc. romanced its investors and future prospects with tours, presentations and the good news about the expansion approval, CRA held its third annual Meet 'n' Greet Barbecue...
Comstock Mining Update – June 21, 2013
There's been a lot going on. Much of it — like Comstock Mining Inc's truckload-by-truckload destruction of the Virginia City National Historic Landmark — is painfully obvious, but some of it took place...
Comstock Mining Update – April 26, 2013
The first court case arising out of the controversy over pit-mining in the Virginia City National Historic Landmark has been decided in Storey County's favor. Curiously, the County was arguing for the other side....
Comstock Mining Update – March 13, 2013
The saga of pit mining in the Virginia City National Historic Landmark took another strange swerve when the BLM suddenly relented and allowed Comstock Mining Inc. to use the disputed haul road to truck...
Comstock Mining Update – July 21, 2012
Here on the Comstock, the citizens who act for the Comstock Residents Association (CRA) were geared up for the Storey County Commission meeting on July 19.
The Commissioners were to vote on a request...
Comstock Mining Update — July 2012
The Virginia City National Historic Landmark is under attack by Comstock Mining Inc., a rogue company hoping to dig enormous pit mines in Silver City and Gold Hill.
The CRA is not opposed to mining,...
