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The upper photo does look like Basalt, the second photo looks to be composed primarily of Quartz. Sulfides seem to abound. I am not familiar enough with the geology in that area, to determine if these are naturally occurring, or if they have been emplaced, or salted, by any number of the unscrupulous. I do not see Shale in any of the samples. Perhaps you should start reading up on geology. The State has many in depth circulars for a specific area, and known deposits. Hook up with a geologist.Ferro magnesium.....hmmm......the images from that search led to seeing images of basalt...which looks identical to the black shale where my find is. There are thin layers and thick layers as well...I'll show in the following pics what I mean. Some of these will have a nugget connected to the black stuff and others have very thin layers of shining silver metallic contained within them. I may be wrong when I say black shale, it very well may be basalt....how can I know for sure which it is? Does any agency in the DNR do testing on this? I will also include a better close up photo of the nuggets...I apologize I suck at photography seriously. If there were a negative score for ability to take pictures, I'd be like -80 but here is effort to show what is hard to describe unless you've got a chunk in your hand. View attachment 57582View attachment 57581