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Current three way catalytic converters have been in use since the early 1980’s. In brief, they use rhodium at the front end in a low oxygen environment to reduce nitrogen oxides to nitrogen gas and oxygen. This is followed by a more oxygen rich environment, created by oscillating the fuel…
Corporate The company has 1,778 million shares on issue and a market cap of $39.1M at $0.022/share. The largest shareholders are a group of German investors with around 22% of the company, directors hold around 3%. The directors are: Peter Unsworth, Chairman, Mike Jones, MD, Paul Ingram and Markus Elsasser.…
Pure or primarily PGE (platinum group elements) stocks are rare on the ASX. This is to be expected, given the dearth of PGE projects in Australia. A few companies have PGE prospects that are secondary to their main endeavours, three are listed. Numerous companies suggest they have PGE prospects, mostly…
The six platinum group elements are ruthenium (Ru), rhodium(Rh), palladium(Pd), osmium(Os), iridium(Ir) and platinum(Pt). These are all transition metals grouped in the centre of the periodic table. Os, Ir and Pt are the three densest metals, Os has a density of 22.6 compared with gold at 19.3 and silver at…