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Platinum Group

Rare Metals In The Age Of Technology

by Jack Lifton January 10, 2010

I’ve just completed the finishing touches to a new report that I’ve written for subscribers to The Jack Lifton Report.
In December 2009, I was invited to New York’s Essex House by CLSA, one of Asia’s leading independent brokerage and investment groups, to present a short seminar on “Rare Metals in the Age of Technology” to [...]

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GM Must Buy Its Platinum & Rhodium For US Consumption From A Foreign Country. Is It Fair To Criticize This Practice As An Outsourcing Of Jobs?

by Jack Lifton July 10, 2009

General Motors has recently come under criticism for petitioning the bankruptcy court to break its contract with Stillwater Mining Company, located in Stillwater, Montana.
The USA does not produce, nor does it have, sufficient resources of any of the platinum group metals (PGMs) to meet the demands of the American domestic OEM automotive industry for catalytic [...]

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Don’t Drink Any Arctic Meltwater Unless You Want To Ingest Up To 0.000000000000023 Grams Of (Gasp) Osmium With Each Gram!

by Jack Lifton April 22, 2009

The ability of analytical chemists to detect low levels of metals in water, has gone far beyond the ability of environmentalists to exercise common sense and good judgement.
The author of a recent article in Nature states that modern Arctic ice contains up to 120 times more osmium, or platinum group metals (PMGs), than 7,000 year [...]

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Has Toyota Discovered Rare Metal Auditing And Conservation?

by Jack Lifton March 27, 2009

It is certain that the prices of the critical technology metals, which are required for the manufacturing of the nickel metal hydride batteries for Toyota’s current Hybrid Synergy Drive, will be going up by 2011, as demand for them is predicted to exceed supply sometime in, or soon after, 2011. Toyota can perhaps reduce [...]

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Travels In The Fourth Dimension (Time): The Future Of The Platinum Group Metals In The OEM Automotive Industry

by Jack Lifton November 3, 2008

Without any major new discoveries of non-platinum group metal (PGM) technologies, for the control of exhaust emissions from internal combustion engine, hydrocarbon fuel (ICHF)-powered vehicles, the total demand for PGMs by the global OEM automotive industry will depend on the percentage of the total of such vehicles built that will continue to use ICHF power [...]

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