4. Industrial applications

4.1 Jewelry and decorative enamels

The West has always favored gold and silver as base metals for jewelry. In Asia, white metals are more popular; demand for platinum began to grow in Japan in the 1960s, and in China in 1995: Asia has always preferred platinoids, partly because of their skin tone. Jewelry consumes just over a third of the world's platinum requirements, i.e. 85 t: Japan and China account for 80% of this total.

In most countries, the purity of platinum is at least 85%. Platinum is alloyed with other platinoids such as palladium,...