Silver has been mined for eons and has always been popular in jewelry and for coinage.
The reason for this demand is the use of silver in the photography industry, which takes advantage of silver's reactivity to light.
Native Silver is rare and much silver is produced from silver-bearing minerals such as prousite, pyrargyrite, acanthite, galena, etc. Specimens of Native Silver usually consist of wires that are curved and intertwined together, making an inspiring mineralogical curiosity.
The Comstock Lode is the richest known U.S. deposit of silver ore discovered under what is now Virginia City, Nevada on the eastern slope of Mt. Davidson, a peak in the Virginia range.
When silver was first discovered on the Comstock, the flow of water from natural springs was adequate to supply the needs of the miners and small towns of Virginia City and Gold Hill, Nevada.
Nevada is commonly called the "Silver State" on account of the silver produced from the Comstock Lode.
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