- history of platinum extraction (in platinum group (chemical element group): History)
...These pebbles could not be melted alone but would alloy with and adulterate gold to the extent that the gold bars would become brittle and impossible to refine. The pebbles became known as platina del Pinto—that is, granules of silvery material from the Pinto River, a tributary of the San Juan River in the Chocó region of Colombia.
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