| Both platinum and gold are useful metals. Gold’s use is ultimately social, being a thing of beauty, symbol of power, store of value and a means of exchange, while platinum is primarily an industrial metal. This isn’t helping platinum versus the gold price one bit right now.
Platinum, from platina, meaning “little silver” in Modern Latin via Spanish, was only identified as a precious metal in the mid-18th century. So it lacks gold’s long history of human use...............................................Full Article: Source
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