found a pocket of very unique rocks/fossils? I can't find any comparable minerals

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I found quite a few. Very different in colors and shapes yet somehow very similar. Most are very dense. Some display pieces of what appears to be metal or glass. They are difficult to photograph because of photogenic effects like 3d in pictures. The best way to describe the most common photo effect appears like a bubble that looks like an eye. The makeup appears hodgepodge like its multiple different minerals or animals if fossils. I dont believe they are fossils but if not theres 3 or more minerals combined to make each specimen. Some look like its triple that amount. A good majority look like blocks fused together. They are non magnetic although some may have slight magnetism. I think i feel a slight attraction but only for a millisecond. They are also very pliable. You can compact some considerably. Finding that out had a cost. Handling them put almost tattoo like copies on my hands. It's like a film with bits of maybe metal as the films film's frame. Some of the larger ones I found look like they have a metal shell or a hard ceramic maybe. The outside colors look like old fading paint. Lastly most have multiple colors with yellow red orange and Black being the most having all of those colors. Blue also appears frequently and green as well sometimes. All have multiple shades of brown. Attached are a few different of the oddities I found. I live in Missouri in an area with cambrian age to mississippian aged rocks. The location was at the bottom of a steep hill. The kind of steep where you can't walk normally down but instead have to trot down and the length was maybe 150 yards from top to bottom. The side closest to the bottom was blown up for some housing development that never happened. Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.

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Nice!!! Congrats!!!
 

Thanks for the response. I am now 99% sure It's platinum group for some at least. I'm posting what I believe is clearly a metal grain of Palladium. After looking at palladium crystals I went through and found a good amount with that feature. If ive looked at rocks to long and have gone bonkers please let me know. Crazy doesn't know its crazy.20200721_151331.webp20200721_151613.webp20200720_163835.webp20200720_163728.webp
 

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Ill have to buy some uv lights. I have 15 lifx lights that can change a million different colors but uv is not one of them.
 

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