Gone Platinum: Contraband and Chemistry in Eighteenth-Century Colombia

2011/03/14 by Kris Lane · 1 citation
Chemistry · Social Sciences · #Historical and Literary Studies #History and Politics in Latin America #History and advancements in chemistry

paper · doi:10.1080/10609164.2011.552549

openalex publication_date 2011/03/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30

Abstract

This article examines the strange career of platinum, an element first identified in colonial Colombia. Around the turn of the eighteenth century, a high-grade platinum alloy, nicknamed ‘platina,’ ...

Cited by

• Merchants and Golden River Ports: Reassessing the Role of Caribbean New Granada in Imperial Bullion Flows, 1740–1832

Related

• Ingeniosand ingenuity: rethinking Indigenous histories of silver in the colonial Andean mining industry
• Merchants and Golden River Ports: Reassessing the Role of Caribbean New Granada in Imperial Bullion Flows, 1740–1832
• “Our Suffering with the Taxco Tribute”: Involuntary Mine Labor and Indigenous Society in Central New Spain
• The La Tolita—Tumaco Culture: Master Metalsmiths in Gold and Platinum
• The “Pre-Colombian” Era of Drug Trafficking in the Americas: Cocaine, 1945-1965