Platinum, a metal that helps craft aesthetically pleasing jewelry, also finds use in a car's exhaust for entirely non-aesthetic reasons. The catalytic converter is required on nearly every car to ...

Gold prices have reached record highs due to investor fear, inflation hedging, and shifts in U.S. monetary policy ...

Catalytic converters are part of a vehicle’s exhaust system and are commonly stolen because of the precious metals they contain, such as platinum, palladium and rhodium. According to Wagoner ...