An attraction to Estate Platinum Rings may be because platinum is one of the world's rarest metals, found in very few places. If the world's total Platinum deposits were to be poured into an Olympic size swimming pool, it would be scarcely deep enough to cover your ankles. Gold on the other hand, would fill more than 3 swimming pools, being 35 times more available than Platinum. The annual production of Platinum amounts to 160 tons compared to 1,500 tons of gold. Mining and refining is an arduous, time-consuming task requiring 10 tons of mined ore to extract a single ounce of Platinum which takes five months.