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I found these rocks in Tupelo, Ms. a few months ago while hunting for fossils but I'm having trouble identifying them. They are not magnetic but look to contain metal. I broke one open and it has a gold color in it.
 

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Some closer views will help but it looks like either chalcopyrite or bornite crystals on chalk?? and the last one may be more of the same but a derivative closer to malachite. If your looking for fossils then you may come across corpalite's *might be spelt wrong* fossilized dung that is often made up of pyrites.
 
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Asked for some closer views so I used my homemade macro lens. 😆 The images looked so neat I couldn't stop. They kind of remind me of an alien world and the colors are amazing but they are the same stones just very close up images.
 

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