Native silver is the purest kind of silver. Native silver is a metal with nothing else added to it. Most silver is found in an ore combined with a mineral. It can be found in igneous and sedimentary ore like galena. It is formed in veins of rock that have hot water flowing around and through them.
Silver is mined using underground mining.
 

Most of the time, silver is found in ore. The miner's goal might not be to find silver, but to mine copper, lead, or zinc. Native Silver is found by itself. Silver has to be taken out of the ore. First it is crushed, heated until it melts, combined with something else, and then chemicals are added into it that finally separate it.

Silver is a soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it has the highest electrical conductivity of any element and the highest thermal conductivity of any metal. It occurs as a pure free metal (native silver) and alloyed with gold (electrum), as well as in various minerals, such as argentite and chlorargyrite. Most silver is produced as a by-product of copper, gold, lead, and zinc mining.

Silver is a mineral that is said to mirror the soul, strengthen the connection between astral and physical bodies, and enhance intuitive and psychic energies. Silver is mystically considered to improve speech, bring eloquence. It is also purported to attract, enhance and store the energies of gemstones, as well as draw out negative energies. Silver is related to the moon, and moon energies. Physically, crystal healing lore indicates that silver is has been traditionally used to aid heptatitis treatments, eliminate toxins, expel toxins through the pores, headache, rheumatic pain, nausea and gastritis, obesity, and diabetes.