---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-25-017218"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LODE"
cik: "0001120970"
company_name: "Comstock Inc."
filed_at: "2025-05-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T04:29:55.120227+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Comstock appoints Judd B. Merrill as CFO and President of mining subsidiary

## Summary
- Merrill to serve as CFO of Comstock Inc. and President of its wholly-owned mining subsidiary, Comstock Mining LLC.
- Effective May 19, 2025; annual salary of $389,500.
- Previously CFO of Aqua Metals (2018–2025) and CFO of Klondex Mines before that.
- Merrill previously served as CFO and Corporate Secretary of Comstock from 2011 to 2016.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-25-017218
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LODE
- cik: 0001120970
- company_name: Comstock Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-05-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1120970/000143774925017218/0001437749-25-017218-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1120970/000143774925017218/lode20250515_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Judd B. Merrill was appointed as Chief Financial Officer of the Company and President of Comstock Mining LLC at Comstock Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer of the Company and President of Comstock Mining LLC
  source text: On May 9, 2025, Comstock Inc.'s (the "Company") Board of Directors appointed Mr. Judd B. Merrill, as Chief Financial Officer of the Company and President of the Company's wholly-owned mining subsidiary, Comstock Mining LLC, that, together with the Company's other affiliated mining activities, controls all of the Company's mineral exploration and mining assets.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1120970/000143774925017218/0001437749-25-017218-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.