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Platinum is silvery-white in appearance, lustrous, ductile, and malleable. Of the 239 tonnes of platinum sold in 2006, 130 tonnes were used for automobile emissions control devices, 49 tonnes were used for jewelry, 13.3 tonnes were used in electronics, and 11.2 tonnes were used by the chemical industry as a catalyst. The remaining 35.5 tonnes produced were used in various other minor applications.

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14/05/2010

Platinum and Palladium: Where Will the Second Half of 2010 Take Them?

The large uptake in investor demand for the new ETF’s took many by surprise, for what have been traditionally more industrious precious metals.
19/12/2008

Automaker woes and the PGM sector

As US automakers struggle to survive in an increasingly uncertain market fraught with recession worries, concerns have emerged regarding the Platinum Group Metals (PGM) sector and PGM companies.
28/11/2008

Platinum card, sir? We only take gold cards here…

With paper gold threatening to overtake platinum in worth and physical gold fetching considerably more per ounce, just what is platinum’s future?

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