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Countries with production of platinum metals (2008)

Here are tables and graphs with information on platinum group metals represented.

overview

In 2018, the global production of platinum was 190 tons (2017: 199 tons). The most important extraction nations were South Africa (137 tons), Russia (22 tons) and Zimbabwe (15 tons), whose share of world extraction was over 90 percent.

The global production of palladium amounted to 220 tons in 2018 (2017: 225 tons). The largest producers were Russia (90 tonnes), South Africa (81 tonnes) and Canada (20 tonnes), which together accounted for 87 percent of the global volume.

The eligible reserves of platinum metals were estimated by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in January 2020 at 69,000 tons worldwide, 63,000 tons of which are in South Africa alone. The largest reserves are in the local Bushveld Complex , one of the largest intrusive complexes of alkaline melts on earth. The high concentration of deposits of rare metals such as platinum is of global political importance. The static range of the reserves is over 160 years.

Platinum mines only exist in South Africa ( Transvaal ). Platinum sources are also the non-ferrous metal production of copper and nickel in z. B. Greater Sudbury ( Ontario ) and Norilsk (Russia). Platinum Group Metals (PGM) are produced there as a by-product of nickel refining. Six metals are referred to as platinum metals, the chemical behavior of which is so similar to platinum that the separation and purification originally caused great difficulties: platinum, palladium, iridium , osmium , rhodium and ruthenium . The platinum metals belong to the noble metals and have a corrosion resistance similar to gold .

Reserves

The United States Geological Survey distinguishes between the following two categories:

• The reserve base is that portion of an identified resource that meets the specific minimum physical and chemical criteria for current mining and production practices, including grade , quality , thickness and depth . The publication of data on the stock base was stopped by the USGS in 2009.
• The reserves are that part of the supply base that could be economically extracted or produced at a given time. The term does not have to mean that extraction systems are installed and working. Reserves only contain exploitable substances.

The reserves of the countries with the greatest production are listed here.

Figures in kilograms (2018)

rank	country	Promotion (platinum)	Funding (palladium)	Reserves (PGM) (a)	Percentage ownership %
1.	South Africa	137,000	80,600	63,000,000	91.3
2.	Russia	22,000	90,000	3,900,000	5.7
3.	Zimbabwe	15,000	12,000	1,200,000	1.7
4th	United States	4,160	14,300	900,000	1.3
5.	Canada	7,400	20,000	310,000	0.4
	Other countries	4,470	2,920	k. A.	k. A.
	World (b)	190,000	220,000	69,000,000	100.0

^(a)PGM: Platin Group Metals, d. H. Platinum, palladium, iridium, osmium, rhodium and ruthenium

^(b) Values ​​rounded

advancement

Platinum by country

Places with mining of platinum metals

All figures relate to the states within their current borders.

Promotion of platinum in kilograms

Rank (2013)	country	1990	1995	2000	2005	2010	2015	2016	2017	2018
1.	South Africa	87,813	102,000	114,459	163,711	148,000	139,000	133,000	143,000	137,000
2.	Russia	31,000	27,000	34,000	29,000	25,100	22,000	23,000	21,800	22,000
3.	Zimbabwe	21st	7th	505	4,834	8,800	12,600	14,900	14,000	15,000
4th	Canada	5,044	5,945	6,302	6,075	3,900	7,600	12,600	9,500	7,400
5.	United States	1,810	1,590	3.110	3,920	3,450	3,670	3,890	3,980	4,160
6th	Colombia	1,316	973	339	1,082	998
7th	Finland	60	60	441	800
8th.	Japan	1,425	730	782	760
9.	Botswana	0	0	0	300
10.	Australia	100	100	171	111
11.	Poland	0	0	21st	20th
12.	Ethiopia	2	0	0	0
13.	Serbia	5	10	5	3

Palladium by country

Palladium production rates (2005)

All figures relate to the states within their current borders.

Production of palladium in kilograms

Rank (2013)	country	1990	1995	2000	2005	2010	2015	2016	2017	2018
1.	Russia	84,000	85,000	71,000	97,400	84,700	81,000	79,400	85,200	90,000
2.	South Africa	38,300	51,000	55,818	82,961	82,200	83,000	76,300	86,800	80,600
3.	Canada	5,269	9,319	9,949	10,415	6,700	21,000	21,000	17,000	20,000
4th	United States	5,930	5,260	10,300	13,300	11,600	12,500	13,100	13,600	14,300
5.	Zimbabwe	31	17th	366	3,879	7,000	10,000	12,000	12,000	12,000
6th	Japan	1,047	2.174	4,712	5,400
7th	Botswana	0	0	0	1,900
8th.	Australia	400	400	812	550
9.	Poland	0	0	12	10
10.	Serbia	130	50	25th	19th

World funding

The following shows the world production of platinum metals (platinum, palladium, iridium, osmium, rhodium and ruthenium) in tons.

Platinum metals (PGM) in tons

year Prod. 1900 6.6 1901 9.9 1902 9.3 1903 7.0 1904 9.0 1905 6.2 1906 6.6 1907 9.7 1908 8.0 1909 8.5 1910 8.9 1911 9.7 1912 9.8 1913 8.3 1914 8.1

year Prod. 1915 4.5 1916 2.8 1917 2.6 1918 2.0 1919 2.1 1920 2.3 1921 1.8 1922 2.2 1923 2.6 1924 3.6 1925 3.2 1926 4.4 1927 4.6 1928 4.3 1929 4.8

year Prod. 1930 4.8 1931 8.9 1932 6.5 1933 6.8 1934 12.9 1935 12.1 1936 14.2 1937 14.8 1938 16.8 1939 16.9 1940 14.5 1941 14.9 1942 16.9 1943 19.6 1944 16.0

year Prod. 1945 30.0 1946 17.9 1947 15.6 1948 16.3 1949 17.9 1950 18.7 1951 21.0 1952 21.8 1953 24.1 1954 29.2 1955 33.9 1956 34.5 1957 41.1 1958 27.7 1959 32.8

year Prod. 1960 39.7 1961 41.8 1962 50.5 1963 63.4 1964 79.2 1965 92.3 1966 94.5 1967 98.8 1968 106 1969 107 1970 132 1971 127 1972 133 1973 163 1974 179

year Prod. 1975 178 1976 194 1977 203 1978 200 1979 202 1980 213 1981 216 1982 200 1983 203 1984 238 1985 247 1986 260 1987 271 1988 280 1989 282

year Prod. 1990 291 1991 287 1992 280 1993 276 1994 269 1995 326 1996 324 1997 339 1998 354 1999 366 2000 364 2001 395 2002 414 2003 466 2004 472

year Prod. 2005 504 2006 515 2007 509 2008 468 2009 450 2010 472 2011 491 2012 423 2013 455 2014 393 2015 473

See also

• Platinum price
• Palladium price
• Gold / tables and graphs
• Silver / tables and graphs

Web links

• US Geological Survey
• British Geological Survey

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} United States Geological Survey: Platinum-Group Metals Statistics and Information
2. ↑ United States Geological Survey: Historical Statistics