Unprocess Picture Of Mineral Platinum

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2021 04 13· Because platinum is so rare it must be extracted after being mined through a process that involves crushing it into incredibly small particles and separating these particles from one another This is known as the flotation separation method and produces a frothy layer of particles that can be skimmed to provide the extracted platinum

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Platinum is the most valued precious metal; its value exceeds even that of has a beautiful silver white color and unlike Silver does not is unaffected by common chemicals and will not get damaged or discolored by chlorine bleach or detergents

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Answer A1 Platinum can occur in many forms in nature The platinum group elements platinum palladium rhodium ruthenium iridium and osmium generally occur as alloys with iron or with transition group metals such as arsenic tellurium antimony and vanadium; or as mixed platinum palladium sulphide minerals cooperite and braggite

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Platinum Nugget California Composition Structure and Associated Minerals Platinum is a rare metal which occurs almost exclusively native only one rare compound sperrylite PtAs2 being known Platinum is usually alloyed with several per cent of iron and with smaller amounts of iridium osmium etc

Platinum group six metals in order of increasing atomic weight ruthenium Ru rhodium Rh palladium Pd osmium Os iridium Ir and platinum Pt The elements all possess a silvery white colour—except osmium which is bluish white The chemical behaviour of these metals is paradoxical

A2 Platinum metal is metallic silvery grey There is a picture of platinum bearing ore on the front page of the Platinum 2021 Interim Review There is also a picture of Russian platinum nuggets on page 20 of PGM Mining in Russia in Platinum 2021 Answer posted February 2021 Submitted by Ms Dennice Mashamba Answered by Tom Kendall

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Platinum is the rarest and most expensive of the popular precious metals It is much rarer then Gold Due to its rarity and value it is not readily available to mineral collectors and is seldom represented in in all but the highest end mineral collections

Platinum Cherepanovite Cooperite Comments Creamy grayish fractured grains of cherepanovite with gray granular cooperite and white massive grains of iridian ruthenian section in reflected light Location Placer Deposit Northern Pekul nei River Pekul nei Range Chukotka Tchukotka Okrug Chukot Peninsula Far Eastern Region Russia

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Platinum can occur as a native metal but it can also occur in various different minerals and alloys That said Sperrylite platinum arsenide PtAs 2 ore is by far the most significant source of this metal A naturally occurring platinum iridium alloy platiniridium is found in the mineral cooperite platinum

Most widespread minerals containing Platinum; This list of minerals containing Platinum is built from the locality database This is based on the number of localities entered for mineral species and is therefore slanted towards minerals interesting to collectors with less coverage of common rock forming minerals so it does not give an undistorted distribution of Platinum mineral

2021 11 05· Copper sulfate is a mineral you can use to grow amazing blue crystals J A Steadman / Getty Images Welcome to the mineral photo gallery Minerals are natural inorganic chemical compounds These are photographs of minerals along with a look at their chemical composition

The advent of black economic empowerment and the use it or lose it approach to minerals rights — envisaged in the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act of 2021 — led to a shift in the sector and the growth and rise of smaller platinum companies including intense interest from foreign investors and operators alike

Native platinum is an exotic mineral specimen and an expensive metal Unfortunately well formed crystals of platinum are very rare and the common habit of platinum is nuggets and grains Pure platinum is unknown of in nature as it usually is alloyed with other metals such as iron copper gold nickel iridium palladium rhodium ruthenium and osmium

Platinum Ore The ores of platinum include Native platinum; The only commercially important platinum bearing mineral is sperrylite PtAs2 which is the most important ore of the metal; platiniridium an alloy of platinum and iridium; osmiridium an alloy of osmium and iridium; native osmium and irridium contain small quantities of platinum; it occurs in covellite which is a sulfide of

Platinum generally contains small amounts of palladium and other metals of the platinum group iridium osmium palladium rhodium and ruthenium These metals are closely associated in nature almost invariably as native alloys The most important mineral of the platinum group is sperrylite PtAs2

How Is Platinum Mined Platinum in its raw state is very rare and is one of the more costly of the precious metals a fact that is certainly reflected in the price of platinum jewelry In addition to jewelry platinum is used by many industries including electronics and scientific applications dentistry and medicine and as a catalyst in petroleum refining

Platinum Platinum element #78 symbol Pt is a dense silvery gray metal The platinum group of elements consists of metals with similar physical properties as platinum and these elements are among the rarest in the Earth s crust They have high melting points are dense or heavy and are non reactive with other elements