Short Stuff: Rhodium

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Rhodium is one of the most valuable precious metals on Earth, though it has dropped in value by about 80% in the last year. Learn why by clicking play.

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0:00.0	In 1995, Detective Tony Richardson was trying to figure out who killed a fellow officer.
0:11.5	The case comes down to who is believed and who is ignored.
0:15.8	Oh my goodness, we did connect to Innocent Man.
0:19.1	I'm Beth Shelburn from Lava for Good Podcasts.
0:22.6	This is Ear Witness.
0:24.9	Come to Ear Witness on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.9	Hey and welcome to the short stuff, I'm Josh and there's Chuck and let's take it back
0:39.8	to Christmas Eve, the year is 1800 and I'm an English scientist named William Hyde
0:45.7	Walliston.
0:46.7	Who are you Chuck?
0:48.7	I guess that would make me your colleague, Smith Centinent.
0:53.2	And Neil Tennant's great, great, great, great, great grandfather.
0:56.0	I don't believe you have enough phone for anything anymore.
0:59.7	Okay.
1:00.7	So what are we doing on this Christmas Eve 1800?
1:03.7	Well, we're unwrapping a very special thing, a precious metal, platinum ore.
1:10.9	That's right.
1:12.9	We've got to stop that.
1:13.9	We paid a pretty penny for it too.
1:15.2	It came from what we would call Columbia today, what Walliston and Tennant us called New
1:20.5	Wave of Grenada, which is fancy, but they paid something like 795 pounds for it, which
1:28.3	in 1800, there'd be a thousand dollars and today it'd be like 23,000 dollars.
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