| Nota de contenido: | Introduction
- Identification
- Early History
- Modern Applications
- Scope and Standards of this Review
- Units
Sources and resources
- The Republic of South Africa
-- The Merensky Reef
-- The UG2 Chromitite Layer
-- Resources of the Merensky Reef and UG2 Chromitite
-- The Potgietersrub Limb
-- Other deposits in South Africa
-- Chromitites below the UG2
-- The Insizwa nickel-copper deposits
-- The Uitkomst nickel-copper deposit
- Russia
-- The Norilsk-Talnakh deposits
-- The layered complexes
-- The deposits
-- The deposits of the Kola Peninsula
-- Economics
- Finland
- Zimbabwe
- The USA
-- The Stillwater Complex
-- Other PGE deposits in the USA
- Canada
-- The Sudbury Basin
-- The Lac des Isles deposits
-- Assessments
- People's Republic of China
- The PGE in the Sedimentary Cycle
-- The PGE in Gold and Heavy-mineral placers
-- Major placers of the World
-- The Urals
-- Colombia
-- South Africa
-- Ethiopia
-- Australia and Tasmania
-- The USA
-- Canada
-- The Far East and Oceania
-- The rest of America
-- The PGE in Argillaceous sediments
- PGE Resources of the World
Producers and Products
- South Africa
-- The Rustenburg Group
-- The Impala Group
-- The Lonrho Group
-- The Gold Fields Group
-- Other producers or potential producers
-- South African Production
- Russia
-Canada
-- Major Producers
-- Canadian Production
- The USA
-- Mines and prospects
-- USA production
- Other producers
-- Australia
-- Colombia
-- Ethiopia
-- Finland
-- Japan
-- Yugoslavia
-- Zimbabwe
-- Other producers
- World PGM production
Mining, beneficiation, and refining
- Mining
- Beneficiation processes
-- Comminution and Gravity concentration
-- Flotation
-- Smelting
-- Leaching and chemical separation
-- Primary refining methods
-- Secondary refining methods
Marketing, trading, pricing, and historical demand
- Historical aspects of supply and demand
- Sales of Primary PGM production
-- Agents for contractual sales of primary production
-- Markets and exchanges for spot and futures contact sales
- International metals trade
-- Metals trade
-- Trade in Waste, Scrap, Raw ores, or concentrates
-- Refining of secondary PGM
- Strategic inventoires
- Pricing
-- Factors influencing prices
-- Trading prices
-- Time-price relationships
- Historical commercial demand for the PGM
-- Regional consumption in the Western world
-- Demand by Industries in various western countries
- Some notes on the general uses of the platinum-group metals
PGM Catalysis
- Historial
- Fundamentals
- General Catalytic Applications
- The PGM in Autocatalysts, Catalysts for Stationary engines, and industrial catalysts
-- Exhaust emissions
-- The manufacture of Autocatalysts
-- PGM loading and coast - Autocatalyst life
-- Autocatalytic problems and solutions
-- Diesel-fuelled vehicles
-- Pollution from stationary sources
- Global emission-control legislation
-- Background
-- North America
-- Japan
-- Western europe
-- The rest of the World
-- Vehicle populations and technological advances in emission controls in a World Context
- Recycling of PGM in Autocatalysts
The PGM in Jewellery, coinage, and investment
- Historical
- PGM and Alloys for Jewellery and Coins
- PGM jewellery in a world context
-- Japan
-- Western europe
-- South-east Asia
-- North America
-- South Africa
- The PGM as an investment medium
-- Platinum coins, medallions, and small bars
-- Trade in large platinum bars
- Conclusions
The lesser uses of the individual PGM
- Platinum
-- Chemical uses
-- Electrical uses
-- Glass and fibre manufacture
-- Miscellaneous uses
- Palladium
-- Eletrical uses
-- Dental and medical uses
-- Miscellaneous uses
- Rhodium
-- Chemical uses
-- Electrical uses
-- Glassmaking
-- Miscellaneous uses
- Ruthenium
-- Electrical and electronic uses
-- Electrochemical and chemical uses
-- Miscellaneous uses
- Iridium
- Osmium
- Conclusions
Fuel cells and their potential for platinum consumption
- Background
- Applications
-- Electrical-power generation
-- Mobile applications
- Types of fuel cells
-- The phosphoric acid fuel cell
-- The proton-exchange membrane fuel cell
-- The alkaline fuel cell
-- The molten carbonate fuel cell
-- The solid oxide fuel cell
- Problems of commercialization
- Regional events and progress in fuel-cell manufacture
-- Japan
-- North america
-- Western Europe
- Implications of fuel cells for Platinum consumption
An examination of factors influencing the future of the PGM
- The current world politico-economic scenario from the consumer's viewpoint
-- North America
-- Western europe
-- Japan
-- China and Hong Kong
-- The rest of the Western World
- Politico-economic factors likely to affect future production
-- South Africa
-- Russia
- A prognosis on the future supply and demand for Platinum, Palladium, and Rhodium
-- Supply predictions
-- Demand predictions
- Lessons for the South African producers |
Refinar búsquedaThe platinum-group metals / C. Frank Vermaak / Randburg : MINTEK (1995)
Iridium abundance measurements across the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary in the San Juan and Raton Basins of northern New Mexico / C.J. Orth / 1982
