Asset · Commodity · Precious metal

Platinum

Precious metal mined in far smaller quantities than gold, with the majority of primary supply coming from South Africa. Its largest industrial use is in automotive catalytic converters, alongside jewelry and investment demand.

This asset is futures listed on the venue linked above — a typed relationship in the dataset, not a name that happened to match. The parties named after it (LPPM (OTC)) matter to how it trades but are not entities here.

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Symbol: XPT
Type: Commodity
Category: Precious metal
Quote currency: USD
Primary venue: New York Mercantile Exchange · also LPPM (OTC)
Issuer: —
Currency code: XPT ISO 4217 · numeric 962 — the standard treats precious metals as currencies

Approximate reference values from public sources · seed-0.7 · marketcap-1 · 2026-08-30 · not real-time. See data & methodology.

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