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Platinum-Group Resource Assessment

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Date: 2014-05-16 13:14:32
Blog: Geology.com News
URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Geologycom/~3/vR7yiBETW2A/platinum-group-resource-assessment.shtml

Summary:

“The first-ever inventory and geological assessment of known and undiscovered platinum-group element resources estimates that more than 150,000 metric tons of PGEs may exist in the two southern African countries that produce most of the global supply of these critical elements. The potential global PGE supply is nearly double what we understood from previous studies, […]

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Africa, critical elements, first-ever inventory, geological assessment, global supply, metric tons, Platinum-Group Resource Assessment, potential global PGE, previous studies, southern African countries, undiscovered platinum-group element

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