UK (Australia), 1921

At times, the price of osmiridium is very high. In 1921, £42 10s. an ounce was being paid for it on the Tasmanian fields. The London price is said to have once touched the surprising figure of £85 an ounce.

February 1921: "The buyers of Tasmania's production of osmiridium are not quoting, and although recent sales were made on the basis of £34 per oz. for average metal, it is expected that the price will be serious reduced."

January(?) 1921: 1 Troy Oz. Osmiridium (Tasmania) = £ 42.50
February(?) 1921: 1 Troy Oz. Osmiridium (Tasmania) = £ 34.
  
August, 1921: 1 Troy Oz. Osmiridium (Tasmania) = £ 18.

August, 1921:

UK (Australia), 1919: Tasmanian Osmiridium

October?, 1919: 1 Troy Ounce Osmiridium (Tasmania) = £ 33.

Russia, 1884

Estimating the Russian Price per Funt at Fr 350.  and the author's French Franc/Rouble exchange at  2.50 руб Kr, 1 Poud = 5,600 руб



 

 
1884: 1 Troy Oz Osmiridium (Grains @ St. Petersburg) = USD$ 2. - 6.

 

c.1884: 1 Ozt Osmium (SPb: Medicinal: Ref.) = руб Kr. 124.40 (~USD$ 73.)

Citation: Practitioner, Vol. 35 (1885) p.290

1884: Pt Yield = 136.625 Poud = 5,465 Funt = 71,952.8 Ozt.= 2,238 Kgs  
1884: Au Yield = 2,009.2 Poud = 80,368.8 Funt = 1,058,145.4 Ozt. = 32,912 Kgs
















Export, by Country:

USA, 1928

1928: 1 Troy Ounce platina (Colombian ore) = USD$ 67.41
1928: 1 Troy Oz. PGMs (Colombian ore) = USD$ 71.37
 
1928: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (Russian ingot) = USD$ 74.99
1928: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (German Sheet) = USD$ 80.09 
1928: 1 Troy Oz. Iridium (mkt) = USD$ 117.96 
1928: 1 Troy Oz. Osmium (mkt) = USD$ 65.51
1928: 1 Troy Oz. Palladium (mkt) = USD$ 60.60
1928: 1 Troy Oz. Rhodium(mkt) = USD$ 53.13
 


Citation: Foreign Commerce and Navigation of the USA 1928. Bureau of the Census (1929) p.279

USA, 1910-1920: PMGs

See George F. Kunz' "Platinum" for detailed review of New York Monthly Prices, 1910 - 1921

Citation: The Mineral Industry, Vol. 29 p.547

UK, 1910 -1924: Osmium in Tasmania

1910- 1924: Iridosmine (Osmium-Iridium) in Tasmania, Australia

Assay, c.1913:

1912:
 


June 1910: 1 Troy Oz. Osmiridium (Tasmania) = £ 4.417

March-June, 1910:



See also: Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia, Issue 27; Issue 1934 p.451

1910: 1 Troy Oz. Osmiridium (Tasmania) = £ 4.33

1911: 1 Troy Oz. Osmiridium (Tasmania) = £ 4.384
1911: 1 Troy Oz. Osmiridium (High, Mkt) = £ 7.50

1912: 1 Troy Oz. Osmiridium (Mkt) = £ 7.371

1913: 1 Troy Oz. Osmiridium (Mkt) = £ 9.53
1914: 1 Troy Oz. Osmiridium (Tasmania) = £ 5.675
1914: 1 Troy Oz. Osmiridium (Mkt) = £ 9.89
1915: 1 Troy Oz. Osmiridium (Tasmania) = £ 6.40

1916: 1 Troy Oz. Osmiridium (Tasmania) = £ 8.55
1917: 1 Troy Oz. Osmiridium (Tasmania) = £ 11.
1917: 1 Troy Oz. Osmiridium (Mkt) = £ 14.75
1917: 1 Troy Oz. Osmiridium (Mkt) = £ 18.50
1917: 1 Troy Oz. Osmiridium (Best Quality) = £ 22.50

1918: 1 Troy Oz. Osmiridium (Tasmania) = £ 7.90
1918: 1 Troy Oz. Osmiridium (Local High) = £ 14. - 15.
1918: 1 Troy Oz. Osmiridium (Mkt or avg?) = £ 27.90
1918: 1 Troy Oz. Osmiridium (Local High) = £ 37.25

1918: 1 Troy Oz. Osmiridium (Mkt) = £ 40.
1919: 1 Troy Oz. Osmiridium (Local High) = £ 33.

UK (Australia), 1920: Tasmanian Osmiridium

February, 1920: 1 Troy Oz. Osmiridium (Tasmania) ~ £ 40. (USD$ )
March, 1920: 1 Troy Oz. Osmiridium (Tasmania) = £ 42.50 (USD$ 155.55)
December, 1920: 1 Troy Oz. Osmiridium (Tasmania) ~ £ 35. (USD$ )
Dec. Low, 1920: 1 Troy Oz. Osmiridium (Tasmania) ~ £ 30. (USD$ )
 
  March, 1920: Osmiridium Price Price in Tasmania, Australia?









1918-1919: A 'significant' export of Osmiridium from Papua (reported in Pacific Ports Manual, 7th Ed. 1921) was presumably declared in avoirdupois ounces (hence, 5.5 lbs. avd or 80.66 Troy Ounces.) A packet of 2.5 lbs. avd is 36.46 Troy Ounces, whereby a single opportune discovery (in the rainy season, April 1919?) represented nearly half the entire Papuan export for that year.



c.January 1920: 1 Troy Oz. Osmiridium (London) ~ £ 32.91 (USD$ 156.66)



Anecdotal, by August 1921:


1920: USGS market prices suggest January 1920 price for the Osmiridium quotation; US imports of osmiridium were nearly four times higher in 1920.

USA, 1908

1906-08:

Citation: The Mineral Industry, Vol. 17 (1912) p.711



1908: 1 Troy Ounce platina (US ore, NY Spot) = $ 16.80
1908: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (85% ingot, NY Spot) = $ 25.50 - 18.75
1908: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (semi-mfg, whols.) = $ 35.
1908: 1 Troy Oz. Osmium (US ore, whols.) = $ 16.

June, 1908:


July, 1908:

 Late July, 1908:


 



Mid-August, 1908:

August Low, 1908:



 
  


September, 1908:
9/1908: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (Bid) = $ 17.50
9/1908: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (Ask) = $ 20.
9/1908: 1 Troy Oz. Iridium (Mkt) = $ 30.
9/1908: 1 Troy Oz. 85%-15% Pt-Ir (Mkt) = $ 21.50
9/1908: 1 Troy Oz. 85%-15% Pt-Ir (Mkt) = $ 22.50
    









October, 1908:








November, 1908:








December, 1908:





c.1908/9:


1908:


Justi Crowns and Iridio-Platinum Pins (~ ? g.)



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