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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;coppermania, post: 1315364, member: 18304&quot;]Thanks for the input Chris.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;It seems we simply have our decades of the strike crossed and that we share a fascination of the mining history of the region. I have spent most of my life living in another famous mining district, the Black Hills of SD. There is a real mining culture here that is still present, and a person can and we do still mine today. Homestake gold mine was one of the largest gold mines in North America and mostly invested and created by a Mr Hearst, who was involved with the the Comstock and apparently used his stockpile of money earned in CA/NV to conglomerate the diggings in SD between 1876 and 188X. The lessons learned there were perfected in the new mines here and they went underground right away. So the Homestake operates for the next 140 plus years, with almost every family in the area boasting someone that works there, it is hard not to be interested. So we gold mine all summer, and when you do that you ask a lot of questions, like, What rock does the gold come from, How do you get it out, How did the old timers do it, Did they miss a spot, How pure is natural gold, How do they assay it, and as you find answers more are asked until you end up like me with a mini lab in your garage and books all about the subject. Mining guys and coin guys run in the same pack and it isn&#039;t tough to grill a miner when they come into the coin shop and tons of natural gold is traded around here and knowing how to buy it means you have to know how it comes out of the ground.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]148493.vB[/ATTACH] This is a shot of some local high grade and some .999 pure bars produced by the local mine.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I became a semi expert (still more to learn) on local mining history and to understand the motive more I had to cast my gaze onto the period of people predated and spawned the rush to the Black Hills which was the Comstock. Much the same as to understand WWII you must study WWI and so on. So I went there in April. V.C.&#039;s main street is like the small tourist towns you would find here, but we did get out and hike and visit the cemetery and tour Hearst&#039;s home and question the curator there. Then plenty of time at the Carson City mint and a visit to Northern Nevada coins across the street will pretty much get a guy current to what went down in the area. </p><p><br /></p><p>My point in relation to this thread, is that we found most of the tangible history eroded. People, buildings, artifacts and stories just don&#039;t last. Being that coins are made of metal, they survive and are a perfect record for a period of history. And with coins, they are a time capsule you can hold in your hand. CC coins are up there in price, because they are connected to such a wonderful period of American history, and CC Morgans, compared to other denominations, tend to be easier to own than others making then a good choice for collectors like myself.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks, Matt[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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