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40d:Native platinum
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Ore for one of the most valuable metals available, equal in value to aluminum and second only to Adamantine. It's high material value makes it a convenient material for high value rooms for nobles. Especially so, since mining it still leaves a valuable platinum floor.
Platinum can occur in veins inside bodies of magnetite or olivine and as small cluster within chromite and alluvial soil.
It is not possible to make crafts[Verify] with Platinum nuggets, however a mason will use it for some of her tasks if it's not restricted to smelting, resulting in quite valuable (though heavy) furniture, good for export early in the game, if smelting (the more sensible use) and/or metalcrafting is not (yet) available.