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The Royal Canadian Mint is a Crown corporation of Canada, operating under the Royal Canadian Mint Act.

The shares of the Mint are held in trust for the Crown in right of Canada.

Canadian coinage is the coinage of Canada, produced by the Royal Canadian Mint and denominated in Canadian dollars ($) and the subunit of dollars, cents (¢).

Palladium is a chemical element with symbol Pd and atomic number 46.

It is a rare and lustrous silvery-white metal discovered in 1803 by William Hyde Wollaston.

He named it after the asteroid Pallas, which was itself named after the epithet of the Greek goddess Athena, acquired by her when she slew Pallas.

Palladium, platinum, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium and osmium form a group of elements referred to as the platinum group metals (PGMs).

These have similar chemical properties, but palladium has the lowest melting point and is the least dense of them.

Platinum is a chemical element with symbol Pt and atomic number 78.

It is a dense, malleable, ductile, highly unreactive, precious, gray-white transition metal.

Its name is derived from the Spanish term platina, translated into "little silver".

Silver is a metallic element with symbol Ag and atomic number 47.

The symbol Ag stems from Latin, derived from the Greek ὰργὀς (literally "shiny" or "white"), and ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European language root reconstructed as *h2erǵ-, "grey" or "shining".

A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal.

The metal is found in the Earth's crust in the pure, free elemental form ("native silver"), as an alloy with gold and other metals, and in minerals such as argentite and chlorargyrite.

Most silver is produced as a byproduct of copper, gold, lead, and zinc refining.

Silver is more abundant than gold, but it is much less abundant as a native metal.

Its purity is typically measured on a per mille basis; a 94%-pure alloy is described as "0.940 fine".