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Compiled by Dr. Joe Herbertson
June 2001
Sustainable Resource Processing
Top ten transformed minerals - in order of price
•Top ten transformed minerals,      Price per tonne of contained
• in order of price            final product / US$
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•PGMs - platinum and palladium2 20.5  Million
•Gold metal      9  Million
•Silver metal 0.15  Million
•Ttitanium metal (sponge) 7000
•Nickel metal 6500
•Tin metal 5000
•Chromium metal 4200
•Titanium in titanium dioxide pigment 3750
•Manganese in electrolytic manganese dioxide 2000
•Magnesium metal 1850
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•1: Weighted average price
•Note: Price and monetary value are prima facie indicative of the resources (natural, human and financial) that Society is prepared to exchange for products, however these measures exclude resource factors on which Society has not yet placed a price (notably environmental degradation)
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