PGM Day highlights ruthenium’s bright future in hydrogen, biomass, electronics
After listening to Heraeus Precious Metals trading head Dominik Sperzel placing ruthenium on a new high pedestal and describing this low-profile PGM as “my personal favorite”, at this month’s Platinum Group Metals (PGM) Industry Day, chairperson Bernard Swanepoel remarked that he'd never met a person who speaks passionately about ruthenium.m but that, "We love it.” Fortunately, it is South Africa that, once again, hosts the world’s largest endowment of this PGM, a rare silvery-white hard transition metal that forms part the platinum, palladium, rhodium, iridium and osmium group.
After listening to Heraeus Precious Metals trading head Dominik Sperzel placing ruthenium on a new high pedestal and describing this low-profile PGM as “my personal favorite”, at this month’s Platinum Group Metals (PGM) Industry Day, chairperson Bernard Swanepoel remarked that he'd never met a person who speaks passionately about ruthenium.m but that, "We love it.” Fortunately, it is South Africa that, once again, hosts the world’s largest endowment of this PGM, a rare silvery-white hard transition metal that forms part the platinum, palladium, rhodium, iridium and osmium group.
