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What is a precious metal?
The term precious metal is traditionally used when referring to gold, silver and platinum.
They are named precious metals due to their particular chemical composition; they are the least reactive of all metals, having higher melting points than other metals and are on the whole rarer than many other metals.
They are therefore desirable and valuable and often retain their value during economic difficulties and therefore make a solid and invariant investment.
In this section
Our guides to precious metals cover gold, silver and platinum as investments.
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