🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Platinum/Palladium/Rhodium natural nuggets, possibly as these are passing all my tests what do you guys think going from a visual perspective only?

[r4real]

Hello my fellow nuggetiers, so awhile ago I stumbled across a natural deposit of what I believe to be native Platinum/Palladium Rhodium nuggets as they pass all tests that I have done, like when scratched on stone and platinum acid is placed on the scratch it remains unaffected, when blasted with map gas it's impossible to melt, and it remains the same colour, also the flame doesn't change color which would indicate the presence of other metals visually looks identical to pictures I've seen, super heavy, unaffected when placed in hydrochloric acid, and when put in hydrogen peroxide bubbles somewhat rapidly although I don't quite trust the hydrogen peroxide test because alot of thing bubble from peroxide I know the whole producing oxygen theary but still. Lastly the only natural metals that can be found in large deposits are..Gold, Copper, Silver and Platinum and platinum group family. Obviously we know these are not Copper, Gold and these are way to hard and heavy to be silver and they don't test as silver although some you can see gold in, so take a look at some pictures and let me know what you think. thank you. And much appreciated for your professional opinions and your time to reply.

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[unclemac]

galena perhaps

Galena - Wikipedia

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[Gene Mean]

Interesting rocks r4real. I was fascinated with rocks in my younger days, but they were typical of the area here in NJ USA. I can't help with ID. Where are you located?

 

[r4real]

galena perhaps

Galena - Wikipedia

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Galena is not found naturally in large deposits

 

[pepperj]

Galena is not found naturally in large deposits

There are a dozen+ notable mine deposits around the world.

Read the link, the output of these deposits.

Heck even Galena Illinois was named after it.
The Sullivan mine Kimberly BC, in its lifetime, the mine produced over 160 million tons of ore containing 8 million tons of lead, 7 million tons of zinc, and 285 million troy ounces of silver, which were together worth more than $20 billion. After 92 years of active production, the Sullivan Mine was closed in 2001
That is not a small deposit.
These are 2 pieces that I have.
The 1st piece was my Grandfather's
The 2nd piece was found when we were detecting in a mining ghost town over 50yrs ago.

 

[XtreasureX]

Is the area where you discovered these "nuggets" an area with a history of mining? To ask for help with identification and not say where you found them is odd.
What is the specific gravity of these nuggets? That's probably the easiest way to determine identification. They don't look like placer nuggets, to uniform and they look broken, not worn. The last picture has some obvious signs of being heated. Those small little cracks look like it was cooled rapidly. They also are to uniform in size. I say they are some kind of iron.