Whois & Analysis for kitcometals.com

Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells physical precious metals such as gold, platinum, palladium, and silver.

Zinc is a chemical element with the symbol Zn and atomic number 30.

It is the first element in group 12 of the periodic table.

In some respects zinc is chemically similar to magnesium: both elements exhibit only one normal oxidation state (+2), and the Zn2+ and Mg2+ ions are of similar size.

Zinc is the 24th most abundant element in Earth's crust and has five stable isotopes.

The most common zinc ore is sphalerite (zinc blende), a zinc sulfide mineral.

The largest workable lodes are in Australia, Asia, and the United States.

Zinc is refined by froth flotation of the ore, roasting, and final extraction using electricity (electrowinning).

Nickel is a chemical element with symbol Ni and atomic number 28.

It is a silvery-white lustrous metal with a slight golden tinge.

Nickel belongs to the transition metals and is hard and ductile.

Pure nickel, powdered to maximize the reactive surface area, shows a significant chemical activity, but larger pieces are slow to react with air under standard conditions because an oxide layer forms on the surface and prevents further corrosion (passivation).

Even so, pure native nickel is found in Earth's crust only in tiny amounts, usually in ultramafic rocks, and in the interiors of larger nickel–iron meteorites that were not exposed to oxygen when outside Earth's atmosphere.

Copper is a chemical element with symbol Cu (from) and atomic number 29.

It is a soft, malleable, and ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity.

A freshly exposed surface of pure copper has a reddish-orange color.

Copper is used as a conductor of heat and electricity, as a building material, and as a constituent of various metal alloys, such as sterling silver used in jewelry, cupronickel used to make marine hardware and coins, and constantan used in strain gauges and thermocouples for temperature measurement.

Aluminium or aluminum (in North American English) is a chemical element in the boron group with symbol Al and atomic number 13.

It is a silvery-white, soft, nonmagnetic, ductile metal.

By mass, aluminium makes up about 8% of the Earth's crust; it is the third most abundant element after oxygen and silicon and the most abundant metal in the crust, though it is less common in the mantle below.

Aluminium metal is so chemically reactive that native specimens are rare and limited to extreme reducing environments.

Instead, it is found combined in over 270 different minerals.

The chief ore of aluminium is bauxite.