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minus-squareWoofWoof91 [comrade/them]hexbear34·2 years agoit still fucks me up how there's a few grams of platinum just sat there in every old car or motorbike link
minus-squareaaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]hexbear7·edit-22 years agoBut it's not the platinum that makes the scrap value so high, it's the rhodium, or so I've been told. https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/rhodium Change the scale and look at the price spike for rhodium after 2020. That will explain the rise of catalytic converter theft. link
it still fucks me up how there's a few grams of platinum just sat there in every old car or motorbike
But it's not the platinum that makes the scrap value so high, it's the rhodium, or so I've been told.
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/rhodium
Change the scale and look at the price spike for rhodium after 2020. That will explain the rise of catalytic converter theft.