Platinum and gold are precious metals.

铂和黄金是贵重金属。

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Customers are looking at other precious metals, like platinum.

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The large-spec net long also fell for silver, but increased slightly for the industrially oriented precious metals of platinum and palladium.

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It is also the third week in a row that speculators scaled back net-longs in the disaggregated report for all precious metals except platinum.

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That was the year the government was formulating a draft mining charter, proposing that companies be at least 26% black-owned in order to get a government mining license. (The draft became law in 2005.) Since then Motsepe has diversified, swallowing up or forming partnerships with several other old mining companies and adding a swath of minerals: precious metals (platinum and its cousins), nickel, chrome, iron, manganese and coal.

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