Comstock Mining Acquires 30 New Lode Mining Claims
VIRGINIA CITY, Nev., Sept. 12, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Comstock Mining Inc. (the “Company”) (NYSE American:LODE) announced today that the Company has added 472 acres of claims contiguous to its claims in the Dayton /Spring Valley Areas by acquiring 30 unpatented Lode claims, including lands that were previously held by Kona Gold, in the southern part of the Comstock District.
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Corrado De Gasperis, Executive Chairman and CEO of the Company stated, “The efficient locating, staking and filing on the new claims expand an already impressive land position in a historic world-class mineral district. We now control well over 10 square-miles with our land position.”
The annual maintenance fees are administered by the Bureau of Land Management and include the Company’s 2,266 acres of private, patented claims as well as 6,345 acres of unpatented claims including lode claims and combined equals 8,611 of total acres. With the addition of the 30 new claims comprising 472 acres, the Company now controls 6,817 acres of unpatented claims and 9,083 total acres. The filing fees associated with the newly acquired claims was $12,277.00, which included paying for last year’s and 2017-2018 intent to hold fees to the BLM.
The Company has expansive mining claims with exploration, development and operating permits throughout a historic world-class district featuring a production ready platform. The Company’s existing and newly expanded land position in the Comstock District is illustrated in the map below.
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About Comstock Mining Inc.
Comstock Mining Inc. is a producing, Nevada-based, gold and silver mining company with extensive, contiguous property in the Comstock District and is an emerging leader in sustainable, responsible mining, including concurrent and accelerated reclamations, soil sampling, voluntary air monitoring, cultural asset protection and historical restorations. The Company began acquiring properties in the Comstock District in 2003. Since then, the Company has consolidated a significant portion of the Comstock District, amassed the single largest known repository of historical and current geological data on the Comstock region, secured permits, built an infrastructure and completed its first phase of production. The Company continues acquiring additional properties in the district, expanding its footprint and creating opportunities for further exploration, development and mining. The near term goal of our business plan is to maximize intrinsic stockholder value realized, per share, by validating qualified resources and reserves (proven and probable) from our first two resource areas, Lucerne and Dayton, and significantly grow the commercial development of our operations through extended, long-lived mine plans that are economically feasible and socially responsible.
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Neither this press release nor any related calls or discussions constitutes an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the Debenture or any other securities of the Company.
Contact information for Comstock Mining Inc.:
PO Box 1118
Virginia City, NV 89440
http://www.comstockmining.com
Corrado De Gasperis
President & CEO
Tel (775) 847-4755
degasperis@comstockmining.com
Zach Spencer
Director of External Relations
Tel (775) 847-5272 ext. 151
questions@comstockmining.com
