Science news articles about 'platinum deposits'

... of Terrestrial Magnetism. "The crust is very heterogeneous. That suggests a deeper source for the platinum." To test this idea, Shirey and Stephen H. Richardson of the University of Cape Town ...

The world's richest source of platinum and related metals is an enigmatic geological structure in South Africa known as the Bushveld Complex. The source of its metallic riches has long been a matter ...

... he published in JACS in 2007 regarding a fluorogenic indicator for detecting palladium/platinum deposits in soil samples. It relied on a colorless fluorescein-based solution that—when exposed to blue ...