Copper $ 5.462 / lb 1.89%

Brent Crude Oil $ 63.75 / bbl 0.71%

Palladium $ 1502.2 / ozt 1.36%

Crude Oil $ 60.08 / bbl 0.64%

Natural Gas $ 5.289 / Btu 4.18%

Silver Futures $ 59.053 / ozt 2.59%

Aluminum Futures $ 2861 / ton 0.00%

Micro Gold Futures $ 4273.8 / ozt 0.14%

Micro Silver Futures $ 59.053 / ozt 2.66%

Platinum $ 1660.5 / ozt -0.17%

Gold Futures $ 4243 / ozt 0.08%

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INFOGRAPHIC: The History of Metals

Visual Capitalist | October 8, 2014 | 4:50 pm Base Metals Precious Metals Europe Copper Gold Platinum Silver

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Comments

MarkF

October 15, 2014 at 9:17 am

Accuracy and some proof reading would be nice. Mercury shown as 750BC, text underneath states “known to Chinese and Indians before 2000BC. Similarly iron has various dates in textual description to that in the graphic. Also “Hattites” (The Hattites discovered iron …) are in reality the “Hittites”. Still an intersting infigraphic.