“Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”- Edmund Burke
The platinum economy is clearly linked to our modern world. Platinum production, platinum utilization, and platinum waste are topics belonging to the modern era. Though the issue remains, the problematic concern every society living on earth. What platinum can achieve for us (see its detailled utilizations), how platinum is produced (see its production conditions) and what could happen if we don't find a solution to recycle it is the matter of everyone.
Such issues are not new to the mankind. Platinum was not much exploited in the past but others precious metals such as Gold, Silver, Copper always were. So to assess the relevancy of our project and the importance of the problematic it could resolve we ask somes questions to Mr. Nicolas Minvielle, a history PhD student specialist of mining exploitation during middle age, working in the French laboratory [http://la3m.cnrs.fr/pages/accueil.php LA3M]. He has enlighten us about how metals exploitation has always been a issue a the center of the developement our societies and civilizations, triggering, sophistication, advances, and better living conditions but also wars, conflicts and environnement destrcution.
