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If you take $10 and buy an abandoned shipping container of crushed automotive exhaust scrap, you get roughly 450 industrial catalytic converters. Each one contains a ceramic honeycomb mesh coated in pure platinum and rhodium. When processed, you extract 1.4 kilograms of pure platinum and 0.32 kilograms of pure rhodium. At today's market prices, platinum gives you $74,200. Rhodium gives you $112,320. Total value, $186,520 from just $10. Rinse and repeat for more money.

If you take $10 and buy an abandoned shipping container of crushed automotive exhaust scrap, you get roughly 450 industrial catalytic converters. Each one cont…