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We Buy Nobel Metals
​JEWELERS, DEALERS AND PUBLIC WELCOME

Where to Sell Platinum?
Looking for an experienced buyer of the nobel metals such as platinum, palladium, or rhodium?
We are serious buyers.  Sell your platinum to us with confidence.

Platinum is an extraordinary element. It cannot be oxidized, few acids can harm it, and it has excellent resistance to wear and tear. It repels corrosion in harsh environment and high temperatures and is a great conductor of electricity. This makes it very suitable for a wide range of industrial applications such as catalysts, electrodes, oxygen sensors, spark plugs and in turbine engines. Platinum is also very rare (0.005 ppm in the earth’s crust) which accounts for its high price.

Examples of Platinum we Buy
  • We buy Platinum Jewelry
  • We buy Platinum thermocouple wire
  • We buy Platinum crucibles and wire
  • We buy We also buy Platinum sputtering targets
  • We buy Industrial, Medical or Laboratory scrap containing Platinum
  • We buy Vacuum Deposition Boats
  • We buy Old platinum Jewelry- often times for well over the platinum pricing!
  • We buy platinum earrings
  • We buy platinum necklaces
  • We buy platinum bracelets
  • We buy platinum rings
  • We buy platinum pendants
  • We buy platinum bands
  • We buy platinum charms
  • We buy platinum trinkets
  • We buy Platinum Jeweler's Sweeps, Polishing's etc.
  • We buy Platinum solder
  • We buy Platinum flake
  • We buy platinum powder
  • We buy platinum shot
  • We buy platinum nuggets
  • We buy platinum bullion
  • We buy platinum dust
  • We buy platinum filings
  • We buy Rhodium
  • We buy rhodium jewelry
  • We buy palladium
  • We buy palladium jewelry
  • We buy rhodium bullion
  • We buy rhodium coin
  • We buy palladium coin
  • We buy palladium bullion
  • We buy platinum machine parts

We buy platinum, rhodium and palladium of virtually any purity, in any shape, or form.  We have XRF technology on site to analyze the precise purity of the metal content so rest assured we are serious buyers.  Should your items require a fire or digital assay we offer these capabilities as well.

More about Platinum
Platinum boasts a silvery-white luster and is renowned for its hard-wearing properties, resistance to damage and wear, and most of all, its substantial heft, or density,  Platinum can come in a whole host of different purities levels depending on what form it is in.

Platinum has become synonymous with luxury and longevity.   Often times, particularly in jewelry, platinum is mixed with other alloys.  The most common alloy metals paired with platinum are copper, palladium, rhodium, iridium, and titanium.

Although some alloys may be billed as platinum, there are stringent requirements for what constitutes a 'pure' platinum piece. Metals marked with a 950 or 900 purity designation are considered high-grade platinum here in the United States. Alloys containing a lower ratios or platinum  can also be found in jewelry as well. 

In fact purity levels and marks can range from:
.9999
.999
.950
.900
.850
.800
and even lower in some cases

Today, when we manufacture our custom jewelry, we only use 90% or higher platinum in each piece (most pieces being 95%) But we do purchase all purities of platinum so if you have platinum to sell you found the right buyers.  In fact most times we purchase platinum jewelry over the price of platinum!

The History of Platinum:
Mined in Russia and South Africa, platinum was first used in decorative applications in ancient Egypt more than 3,000 years ago to decorate Egyptian coffins. The South American Inca Indians also made use of platinum to decorate their artifacts. Then, with the Spanish conquest through South America, the metal's value was diminished, as the Spanish people considered it to be far inferior to silver. It wasn't until the 1800s that platinum began to reclaim its original status as a precious and treasured metal. 

More about Palladium
Palladium weighs substantially less than platinum (density wise) and yet has great value to it.  Palladium with its light greyish coloring is softer and more malleable than pure platinum.  We are interested in purchasing palladium in any form from palladium coins to palladium jewelry of every era we are serious buyers.

The History of Palladium:
Palladium was discovered in 1802 by William Hyde Wollaston in South America. It was named after the asteroid Pallas and was initially thought to be  an alloy of mercury and platinum however was later identified as its own unique metal.  Today, Russia is the top producer of palladium, with countries like South Africa, the United States, Canada, Australia, and Ethiopia trailing distantly behind.  Palladium has been used as a precious metal in jewelry-making since around 1939 so its possible to find old pieces marked palladium (we even have some antique engagement rings as well as wedding bands crafted in palladium. During World War II, platinum was declared a strategic government resource and palladium became more commonly used in jewelry.

More about Rhodium
Rhodium is one of the six metals in the platinum group.  Rhodium is usually combined with other materials, such as platinum or palladium, as part of an alloy.  We are always interested in purchasing rhodium in most forms from coin form to jewelry form and aircraft parts even.  Often times we pay rhodium based on fire or digital assay and will process your materials first.

The history of Rhodium:
Rhodium was also discovered by William Hyde Wollaston, the English chemist.  In 1803 shortly after his discovery of the element palladium he obtained rhodium from a sample from platinum that he retrieved from South America. He removed the platinum and palladium from the sample which left him with a dark red powder. The powder turned out to be sodium rhodium chloride which he treating with hydrogen gas (H2) to leave the rhodium behind.  Thus rhodium is often found and mined with platinum and other platinum metal group metals.

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