
Prepare for the Mountains
The environment is part of the difficulty. Solve cold exposure before you turn the trip into a mining run. Keep a portal or staging point at a safe edge of the biome.
Finding deposits
Silver is often hidden rather than sitting in obvious surface nodes. Progression tools and terrain clues help you search more efficiently than digging randomly across every slope.
Mining safely
Mountain combat can interrupt mining at the worst time. Clear the immediate area, watch stamina while digging and build a small protected chest or staging point if the vein is far from transport.
Transport and upgrades
As with iron, silver becomes a logistics problem once you have enough of it. Plan what you want to craft first so you do not burn the first haul across too many partial upgrades.