Archive for the ‘History of Platinum’ Category

It’s easy to look at a piece of jewelry and assume that, no matter what the metal contained is, it’s always been around. And you wouldn’t be far off: most of the precious metals such as gold, platinum, and silver have been around for untold amounts of centuries because they are naturally occurring elements.

You might have heard of the ranking system used to judge the amount of records that have been moved in the music industry. There are “gold” records, and then there are “platinum” records - and of course, “platinum” records are the more successful ones.
Why are things ranked this way? What makes platinum more [...]

Unlike the price of diamonds, which is controlled by factors having absolutely nothing to do with their rarity, platinum is highly valuable because of its rarity and the difficulty in creating pure platinum. However, to better understand this, and thus the impact selling platinum has, a look at the process of mining platinum is a [...]

It is no secret that the value of platinum has gone up. In fact it is very hard to not know this given that advertisements on television, radio, the internet and in news papers are beckoning people to sell their old junk cars and catalytic converters to make a quick buck or two. Sadly an [...]

You’ve seen it before: you and your family or friends are relaxing on a beach somewhere with a warm breeze and breathing the fresh salty air. You lay down to enjoy the golden sun above you, when you turn and see someone strolling down the breach with what looks like a strange weedwacker [...]