Comstock Mining Strengthens Board

VIRGINIA CITY, NV--(Marketwired - July 13, 2015) - Comstock Mining Inc. (the "Company") (NYSE MKT: LODE) today announced that Mr. Robert C. Kopple has been elected to its Board of Directors, effective July 9, 2015. Mr. Kopple is a senior partner at Kopple & Klinger, LLP, a law firm that he co-founded in 1992, where he specializes in financial and estate planning, business law and taxation. He is an experienced businessman, investor and shareholder of the Company.

Chairman John V. Winfield commented, "Bob is a strong leader and experienced director, whose business, governance and legal knowledge brings independent, strategic and transactional acumen to our board. He is a long-term value investor whose skill sets are an excellent complement to our existing team. Working together, the team will unlock the intrinsic value created by amassing and advancing the single largest land and geological repository in this historic, world-class mining district. We look forward to working with Bob to build on this unique platform, with a recognized brand, by capitalizing on opportunities for both organic and transactional growth."

Mr. Kopple graduated from the DePaul University College of Law and received his L.L.M. in tax from New York University School of Law. He has been Chairman of the Taxation Sections of the California State Bar, the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the Beverly Hills Bar Association and a member of the Planning Committee of the University of Southern California Tax Institute. He has published extensively, including numerous technical articles on taxation and is a frequent lecturer and instructor on tax matters for many prominent professional institutions. He also has been the Chairman of the Board of Triton Emission Solutions, Inc., since September 2014, Vice Chairman of the Board of Aura Systems, Inc., since September 2013, and has acted as a Special Advisor to the Board of Directors of Patriot Gold Corp. since July 2014.

Corrado De Gasperis, the Company's President and CEO, commented, "We welcome Bob's leadership to our team as we position ourselves for our next major phase of growth. Comstock Mining is an emerging leader in sustainable, responsible mining, where Bob's guidance, counsel and oversight will enhance our governance as we focus on executing on our business plans and delivering the intrinsic value, per share, for our shareholders."

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 commenced production in 2012. 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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