Is platinum the most precious metal?
Platinum is indeed the most precious metal in terms of its rarity and price; platinum is very wear- and tarnish-resistant and also extremely rare; retailers claim supply estimates are 30 times rarer than gold; if all the world’s platinum reservoirs were poured into one Olympic size swimming pool, it would be scarcely deep enough to cover your ankles; gold would fit in three such pools; the price of platinum changes along with its availability, but its price is normally more than 200% of the price of gold; due to greater difficulty to work with platinum was only used in a limited way in jewellery at the end of the19th century; this changed at the beginning of the 20th century with the invention of the new technologies
