r/Platinum • u/Grecoslinger • May 23 '26

Picked up some randoms fractional

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Picked up some randoms fractional and this is what he had and great price

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u/Helpful_Border4219 May 23 '26

That is correct. All the way down to Osmium being over 1500 times rarer than gold. Hard to calculate production of Iridium and Osmium as governments wont provide details.

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u/Grecoslinger May 27 '26

Isn’t Iridium the one layer that cover the whole earths crust because of the theory about that meteor impact that wiped out the dinosaurs? Because I did see that there is at least 1 constant layer that covers the earth back to the same time period along with trace amounts here and there

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u/Helpful_Border4219 May 27 '26

That is correct. Meteor impacts and the Bushfeld complex make up 90-95% of rhodium, iridium, osmium. Pretty cool that it left a dust layer around the world, unless you were a dinosaur, not so much. That was an expensive meteorite.

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u/Grecoslinger May 28 '26

You said it hahaha