Great guesses. This piece is very likely part of the copper-rich quartz vein they were hunting at the champion mine. So I would say its not quartzite, but quartz since it deposited in a vein rather than being metamorphosed into a quartzite.
As for the greenish blue mineral, the locals called it azurite. I doubt that, it's the wrong color. My guess is chrysocolla, which is a hydrous copper silicate. There were no sulfide minerals spotted in the area.
It does look like chrysocolla, now that you mention it! And yeah, I totally forgot that copper silicates were an option too.
I guess I just automatically assumed that it was metamorphosed from the schist mentions.
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Very cool!
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