What is the most expensive precious metal that can be found naturally?
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The Most expensive precious metal that can be found naturally is carbon not plutonium because plutonium is man made element and can not be found naturally, the carbon most expensive precious metal ever because diamond made from that metal created by tremindous pressure,heat,and time  below the crust of the earth.
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For up to date gold graphs look here:\n\nhttp://www.kitco.com/charts/livegold.html\n\nOther precious metals on the same site.
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It's one of the densest metals, yet non-radioactive and inexpensive  - compared with its other cousins eg. Gold. Because it is so dense and heavy, can protect us from X rays and radioactive substances. It is also malleable and was used in lead pipes which gave everyone lead poisoning.
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That's about to change! The cost to manufacture synthetic diamonds is continually going down to the point now where the diamond mining companies are getting worried, especially since the "imitation" diamonds are more perfect than the real thing!\n\nBut we can't say the same thing about gold. Nobody knows how to make gold yet and it's currently over $600 an ounce and going higher.
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Composition of Sterling Silver \n\nSterling silver is an alloy consisting of no less than 92.5% silver and 7.5% of some other metal, usually copper.  Copper is added to make the alloy less prone to breakage and scratching.  Sterling silver is about twice as strong as pure silver.\n\nThe 92.5% silver content standard for "sterling" originates in 14th Century England, where King Edward I decreed that silver coins must be stamped with its silver content.  In time, the 92.5 stamp came to be known as "sterling" and the rest is history.  \n\nPerhaps as a result of this successful effort to control the quality of silver items, the term "sterling" itself has come to mean "of the highest quality" (for example, "She has a sterling reputation.")\n\nHistory\n\nSterling silver has been around for nearly as long as silver - at least 60 centuries.  Over the centuries silver has been combined with other metals to make it stronger.  Eventually, it was concluded that copper is the best mate for silver.  While jewelry styles may come and go, sterling silver has always been an alloy of choice to jewelry makers, and probably always well be.\n\nOver the years, sterling silver has also been valued for reasons beyond its beauty.  Some cultures have attributed healing properties to it, while others have believed that it could bring good luck or thwart the plans of evil spirits.  \n\nThroughout Asia,  silver has long been equated with status and wealth.  In ancient Egypt silver was more valuable than even gold.  Over time, silver became an alloy that even those without great wealth could afford, usually as jewelry. One did not need to be born with the proverbial "silver spoon" in his or her mouth to have a sterling silver adornment.\n\nSterling silver is also equated in some cultures with certain ceremonials or milestones.  For example, Germany is generally credited with treating the 25th wedding anniversary as the "silver anniversary."/
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You may check Bank of Nova Scotia or Royal Bank of Canada. Scotia Bank is a very well known one in the world as they set London Precious Metal AM and PM fixings.
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Copper. It is so brilliant
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I don't remember the ordering, but there's probably some metal out there that won't react?  Gold, maybe?  For regular metal, that sounds a bit iffy.
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Gold is actually a consumable / commodity.\n\n75% of the gold produced is used in jewellery the rest is for industril application (Circuit board etc)\n\nThe recent price hikes have been fuelled by demand for jewellery in the far East mainly India and china, People there now have money to spend and in some cultures it is a traditional wedding gift...... Any way the demand for gold in this part of the world has greatly increased hence the s"supply and demand" scenario. \n\nQuite often the gold used in industrial processes is recycled, but jewellery isn´t, It only retains its sentimental Value and quite often people are buried with it or pass it on to there heirs. So if you bought a €1000,00 bracelet today, you would probably only be able to sell it at scrap prices, as no one wants to buy second jewellery. \n\nBut anyway,  WHAT about De beers:   Diamonds are the most common natural resource on Earth.  Yet Why are dimanonds so expensive, Well, De beers, has a monopoly on the diamond trade, if they do not control a diamond mine, they agree to buy all the diamonds, so as to restrict market supply, if all the diamond mines currently in operation were to sell openly, the price of diamonds would crash, probably making them no more expensive than the piece of quartz in your €5,00 argos watch. Hence they have to restrict the supply of diamonds to the market and actually do have incredible stock piles of the stuff, but what is interesting is the fact that the monopolies commision has not seen fit to investigate the diamond trade............. Hope this makes sense,................ and doesn´t sound too much like a conspiracy theory......\n\nremember,,,,  Paranoia is having all the facts.
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http://www.kitco.com/charts/livegoldnewyork.html\n\n Gold \n Silver \n Platinum \n Palladium \n Rhodium \n\n can be found here
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You can check in the Shop called Pure Gold. They have nice and heavy jewelleries and all rages of gold from white gold to ,21,22,23,24 carat gold.
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Chinese gold coins \nred things \ndragons
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pllatinum is not white gold. The pure element Au is not white gold. \n\nWhite gold is an alloy of gold mixed with white metals such as nickel, silver, and palladium. Like yellow gold, white gold glitters in a variety of carats: 18ct, 14ct, or 9ct. \n\nEighteen-carat white gold consists of 75% gold mixed with 25% white metals. New white gold rings are usually coated with a hard protective finish of rhodium, a silver-white metal like platinum. To keep a white gold ring looking its best, Gillett's recommends an annual replating of rhodium, since the coating wears off over time. \n\nPlatinum, an entirely different element than gold, is a white metal that is denser, heavier, and longer-wearing than gold. It's usually used in almost pure form and does not require a protective coating. Platinum is quite expensive, a platinum ring is perhaps twice the price of a similar ring made in white gold.
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From wikipedia:\n"a mythical substance that supposedly could turn inexpensive metals into gold and/or create an elixir that would make humans younger"
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Best thing would be to go to a pawn/antique shop, buy a bunch of stuff made with those metals, melt them down, and make a bar.\n\nIndividual investors cannot just buy a bar of metal.. however since those metals are more common, go to Home Depot and look for them, ie. Copper Wire. \n\nIf you want to invest in them to make money because you think their price will go up, buy an ETF or a large producer/distributor of those metals, stock.
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No. White gold is an alloy of gold and silver. Therefore is less expensive than gold since it has a small percent of silver in it.\n(But be careful because some people refer to platinum as white gold. Platinum is far more expensive than gold)
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Precious metals are metals that react little with other elements. More specifically: they don't rust. They are also rare.\nThese two properties makes it possible to use precious metals as a store of wealth. On top of that gold has a very characteristic colour, while the other precious metals are whitish/greyish.