Platinum
at-auction$ 20
- Locality
- Pinto River, Chocó Department, Colombia
- Minerals
- Platinum
- Dimensions
- 0.7 x 0.5 x 0.3 cm
- Size class
- Thumbnail
- SID
- F390
River worn nugget of Platinum from the Pinto River, the type locality for Platinum. Weighs 0.5 grams. Platinum was first discovered here in the sixteenth
century and its name derives from its silvery appearance and first source, being called 'platina del Pinto' or 'little silver of the Pinto River'.