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What precious metal is the most expensive in the world?

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What precious metal is the most expensive in the world?

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  1. Platinum.


  2. the only precious metal that matters is metal music!

  3. platinum

  4. It's silver

  5. I think platinum  

  6. Tungsten?  Nah, it'd be something rare...Einsteinium or something.

  7. Gold =] Silver =]

    Hmmm well they're not precious......

    one minute.....

    Platinum is precious because it can get a bit rusty....    & it's expensive.

  8. Scandium is ever so slightly more expensive than Platinum which is worth more than gold.

  9. Probably Rhodium...There's certainly things that are more expensive, but I think rhodium in most cases tends to be the most expensive of the PRECIOUS metals. It's price is also going up again (was decreasing for a while).

  10. In 1991, Ronald Winston of Harry Winston Jewelers decided to make a wristwatch with a case made of a metal nearly ten times costlier than gold or platinum. Then, I think gold was worth $380 a Troy ounce, and platinum was worth $410 a Troy ounce, while this other metal was worth $3800 per Troy ounce. It took six months to get a 150 gram ingot of this metal by processing 2000 tons of ore. Then two years were spent and 400 tools were worn out carving a watch case from this hard and brittle metal and setting 38 baguette diamonds in it. Then a perpetual calendar movement was put in the case, and a turquoise stone dial was over it. This watch was called Galatee from two mythical Greek ladies. Its case is 99.98% pure RHODIUM. I hope you can see why it's so costly from this anecdote. Harry Winston's platinum perpetual calendar watch without diamonds cost $42,000 then. The Galatee probably cost $500,000 or more.

  11. Rhodium is probably the most expensive.

    Platinum is usually about twice the price of gold... and Rhodium can be up to 5 times the price of Platinum, making it about 10 times more costly than gold.

    Rhodium is not as widely available as Platinum though...

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