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  2. Silver mining - Wikipedia

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    Silver mining is the extraction of silver by mining. Silver is a precious metal and holds high economic value. Because silver is often found in intimate combination with other metals, its extraction requires the use of complex technologies. In 2008, approximately 25,900 metric tons of silver were consumed worldwide, most of which came from ...

  3. Silver mining in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Comstock was the first important silver-mining district in the United States, and its discovery stimulated a great deal of prospecting for silver across the Great Basin area of the United States. The resulting silver rush led to many other silver discoveries in Nevada , including El Dorado Canyon (1861), Austin (1862), Eureka (1864), and ...

  4. Prospecting - Wikipedia

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    Prospecting is the first stage of the geological analysis (followed by exploration) of a territory. It is the search for minerals , fossils , precious metals, or mineral specimens. It is also known as fossicking .

  5. Silver mining in Nevada - Wikipedia

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    Silver mining in Nevada, a state of the United States, began in 1858 with the discovery of the Comstock Lode, the first major silver-mining district in the United States. Nevada calls itself the "Silver State." Nevada is the nation's second-largest producer of silver, after Alaska. In 2014 Nevada produced 10.93 million troy ounces of silver, of ...

  6. Silver mining in Arizona - Wikipedia

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    Silver mining in Arizona was a powerful stimulus for exploration and prospecting in early Arizona. Cumulative silver production through 1981 totaled 490 million troy ounces (15 million kg). [ 1 ] However, only about 10% of Arizona's silver production came from silver mining.

  7. Comstock Lode - Wikipedia

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    George Hearst, a highly successful California prospector, became a partner in Hearst, Haggin, Tevis and Co., the largest private mining firm in the United States, which owned and operated the Ophir mine on the Comstock Lode, and other gold and silver mining interests in California, Nevada, Utah, South Dakota and Peru.

  8. List of countries by silver production - Wikipedia

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    2023 Rank Country/Region Silver production (tonnes) % of total — World 25,790 100.0 1 Mexico: 6,400 24.8 2 China: 3,400 13.2 3 Peru: 3,100 12 4 Chile: 1,400

  9. Silver mining in Colorado - Wikipedia

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    The largest current source of silver in Colorado is as a byproduct of gold mining at the Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mine, a large open-pit heap leach operation owned by Newmont Mining Corporation at Victor, Colorado (see Cripple Creek mining district). In 2006, the mine produced 4.0 metric tons (130,000 troy ounces) of silver.