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Raphael Baumgartner

Sep 7, 2026

13:54
What were you doing and why were you doing this?
13:57
We had actually a lot of science questions to address, and let's see if we can tackle some of them at least.
14:03
But one important science question, and we briefly tackled that already in introduction, was understanding the original chromatide formation.
14:13
What were the magnetic processes to form the chromatides, the processes behind it? But then also when we think of the platinum group elements, which are these very, very rare elements, they are at the order of one point per billion or one to two to three point per billion inside the rock.
14:30
We need to understand how they were concentrated, in which minerals they accumulated, et cetera, et cetera.
14:36
And because this is also important in the end to understand such a magnetic system where these elements sit for mining and extraction purposes.
14:44
Not necessarily at Sukhinda, it's not at the moment economically mined, but it's very important to understand where these elements sit inside the rock.
19:33
What was the exciting outcome of this study?

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