Nevada Business in Mining

Virginia City and its silver and gold deposits helped put Nevada on map
VIRGINIA CITY -- Two Irish pick-and-shovel prospectors named Peter O'Riley and Patrick McLaughlin were digging into a water seep in a canyon near Virginia City on a sunny day in June 1859 when they happened upon shiny flakes of gold. Trouble was, the gold was surrounded by "blue stuff" that clogged up their rockers, primitive devices miners filled with water and gravel and swayed back and forth to sift for gold.
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