Platinum

Why not?

Why can't there be every element present in exploding stars be found tripping around the universe?

You can always take a torch to it

www.stebgo.com/blog-0-PreciousMetals/bid/67164/How-to-Do-a-Platinum-Heat-Test

Yup, 3.6 oz per ton is rich. Maybe misplace decimal point or maybe 3.6 dollars per ton....Mel

Orrum, that's the part that was "lost in the translation." The huge mines around Elko, NV make the state America's largest gold producer on yields sometimes far less than 1 oz. per ton but they're mostly run by huge multinational companies with very deep pockets. They're able to make massive up-front investments. But the points you make about hard-rock mining, mine location, the bureaucratic costs etc. make sense. The Elko operations are mostly open pit mines that depend on the volume of dirt moved to reach a profitable return. They buy cyanide by the trainload and water is reasonably available. Hard rock is different as I well know, having seen quartz gold deposits in remote areas that would not be worth the investment to get the metal out.

A co-worker asked if we ever found gold, I said sure. "Could I maybe see it", I said sure. First thing I handed him was a magnifying glass so he could get a good look. Many don't realize the stuff is everywhere, just in very small quantities.

There may be space material containing or made up of platinum.  But no meteorites (meteors that have reached Earth) have even been found made of platinum.  The metal ones are iron-nickle.  And they tend to have more smooth surfaces in most cases since rough edges get ablated off.

@shotgunner just ask glennz01 He's a professional platinum miner

It is still a hypothesis until evidence is presented to make it a theory.

So addressing this hypothesis I see several flaws. 

First of all coming through the atmosphere this would ablate off any rougher edges and could have other characteristics such as flow lines.

Secondly, not all heavy material would necessarily sunk to the core as theorized.  This could only occur if the Earth was still molten magma, but in which case the bubbling could push stuff upward.

Also keep in mind that sinking would require a greater density than the magma.  What if the increasing pressure on the magma further down increased the density as so heavier materials did not sink?  Instead as things cooled the material would have been trapped in upper layers, which were then thrust up by faults. Later weathering out to form placer deposits.

And what about volcanic activity also bringing up materials from deep in the Earth?

And there are new materials being formed from radioactive decay.  There is one meteorite that would be an example of this. It is an enstanite (magnesium mineral) that was formed from the radioactive decay of aluminum 26.

I do agree that scientists often take the easy way out.  I have run in to this multiple times dealing with meteorites. And I brought up a very similar argument on the meteorite boards one time pointing out that we don't really know how rare lunar meteorites are since their make up if virtually identical to some terrestrial rocks and therefore scientists will not even test a potential lunar meteorite unless it has a fusion crust on it.  So we could be walking by hundreds of lunar meteorites and not even know it.  The idiot responded with why does everyone think their rocks are some rare meteorite when I was not even talking about any specific rock.

Nice link, thanks! That gets specific about the formation of larger atoms. Science has known (believed?) that in general this was the case for along time.

The idea isnt mine. Im just expanding awareness. I learned it from 1dave .

The point is, it makes absolutely zero sense that the only recently sourced space material to be found on earth is iron-nickel. The heavier harder to form elements are obviously more rare.

I am sure that if a platinum meteorite landed in your view (super rare!) that you would be 100% unable to convince conventional scientists of its origin. Without a corraborating witness' that is. If I was there they would say we conspired, and if we had three of us they would claim 'mass hysteria'.... Lol

I'd like to offer that the Mogollon rim of arizona and the large collection of copper deposits in the area form a rough crater shape and are evidence of a large copper meteorite strike.