Steven R. Tucker, Gertrude F. Ayakwah

Steven R. Tucker has been named senior mine planner, and Gertrude F. Ayakwah has been named mine planner by Comstock Mining Inc. of Virginia City.

Tucker previously worked at Cascade Gold in Mill City and Mud Miners Inc. in Manley Hot Springs, Ark. He also has worked as a senior mine engineer at Round Mountain Gold Corp. in Nevada and as a project engineer at Champion Construction LLC at Reno.

He holds a bachelor's degree in mining engineering from the University of Idaho.

Ayakwah previously worked as a mining engineer at Pogo Mine in Alaska. She also has worked as a geotechnical research assistant for the Bureau of Geology New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.

She earned a bachelor's degree in mining engineering from KNUST School of Mines at Tarkwa, Ghana, and a master's degree in geotechnical engineering from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.