Other Precious Metals To Look At?

Lay enuf money on the table, and you can buy anything, legal or otherwise.

If you can buy indium at "spot", that sounds like a great investment, but who's making the market? If its price triples, but the only buyer who will deal with you will only pay 25%, you'll still lose money.

In order to make money, you not only need for the price to go up, but you needsomeone making a market (buying and selling any quantity. Further, the bid/ask spread has to be small enough that any price rise isn't eaten by the spread.

Yes, that is true! The top of the Washington Monument is topped with pure aluminum. I forget all the history but it was really hard to get pure aluminum because nobody knew of the chemical process required. I think it was made of pure aluminum ore or something like thay. Once the chemical process was discovered aluminum became super easy to get and cheap. Wikipedia has some good info on it.

-- Boris