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Comstock Lode. 1. the most valuable deposit of silver ore ever recorded, discovered in 1859 by Henry T. P. Comstock near Virginia City, Nevada.
1 Anthony Comstock is one of the four point of view characters in Marge Piercy's novel Sex Wars. Piercy explores Comstock's personal history and mindset as he goes from clerk to active vice suppressor.  Comstock makes a cameo (rescued from a burning building) in Jack Finney's novel Time and Again.