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Radium – the rare metal worth 120,000x the price of gold

Writer's picture: Marcus NikosMarcus Nikos



If you thought gold or diamonds were expensive, think again.



It's radium that would set you back US 10,000,000 for a single GRAM. Compare that to gold being worth just USD 85 per gram.



Radium occurs naturally, but there is simply very little of it. 


Fancy getting yourself a bit of the valuable radioactive material? 


Well, the world of Big Pharma is currently on a quest to find as much as it can get hold of. 

Radium is needed to produce "the world's rarest drug", and it could single-handedly transform the treatment of cancer.


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