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One last pic, a close up of the nugget. I suck at taking macro shots with a phone, sorry.

some pale green-blue rock is visible on the left and in a couple other places on the nugget. I first thought it was an aluminum can melted around some blue plastic or bubble gum. When I got it home under a lens I saw the blue is soft rock with copper mineral and veins of silver running through it.

the silver is pretty well flattened and rounded by tumbling, but the fact that the soft rock is still there indicates to me that it didn't travel far. Probably not the several miles to the nearest known silver mine.

regarding the cabin location, it was a large cabin indicating someone planned to stay there a long time. But the trash pile is tiny, consisting of about 6 bottles, mostly broken, and a handful of cans. So it wasn't occupied long, and probably only one person. The mine is a large glory hole or prospect pit about 50 feet across and 30 feet deep. It is caved in as it was dug through sandy soil. The mine is located maybe a thousand yards from where I found the nugget, on the ridge directly above it. Probably the most interesting thing about that mine site is it's never been claimed. But I don't know if that's where the silver came from. It just happens to be a rather large mine with a cabin that was probably lived in for less time than it took to build it, and it's directly uphill from the nugget location.