Mining of Platinum
Mining platinum can take from 5 to 7 months and 10 tons of ore might yield only an ounce of platinum. The mining process starts when miners extract the ore from the vein in the mine. The ore is then shipped off to a refinery to have the platinum extracted. The refinery uses a flotation seperation method and then the product is smelted. It gets to a high temperature and then the unwanted product is taken out. These are the steps that it takes to get platinum.