The Free Bullion Investment Guide has three missions: • The 1st mission is to give anyone interested in the precious metals bullion markets, an honest place on the web that provides bullion market reference material, bullion market news, and other market-related information. • The 2nd mission is to be an Advocate for and show how it is a better way to treat cancer without harmful side-effects. • This Guide's 3rd mission is to give at least 1/2 of what it earns from its, Sponsors, and to Gold Nanoparticle Cancer Research through (Every Advertising LINK on this Guide is from one of our ) The History of Johnson Matthey The Johnson Matthey Company has a long history of refining platinum group metals. The company dates back to the grandfather of Percival Norton Johnson. Percival Johnson was the founder of Johnson Matthey company; he was also a founding member of the. (the oldest national chemical society in the world) Percival's grandfather was an assayer of ores and metals, in London, during the late 1700's. After his grandfather's death, Percival's father, John Johnson (1765–1831), took over his father's business and got involved in the platinum trade.

At the age of 15, Percival Johnson (1792-1866), became an apprentice, in his father's firm. During his apprenticeship, he published the following paper Titled:. In the paper, Percival Johnson showed that small quantities of platinum mixed with gold and silver in nitric acid cause a facilitated separation of pure gold, from the solution. Through his work, he proved to his father that he was a skilled assayer and mineralogist. In 1817, Percival became a full partner in his father's assaying firm; this is the same year often referenced to be the year when the Johnson Matthey Company was established.

Johnson's knowledge in assaying precious metals, allowed him to find the exact value and purity of a gold bar by applying chemical tests to the physical metal. The firm became the first London assayer to offer a guarantee on the quality of a gold bar; the business grew when Johnson began to offer buy-backs on the bars of gold he assayed. Percival built a small gold refinery for the gold bars that were coming into his growing business. He proved to his customers to be proficient at the extraction of Platinum Group Metals and other ores from gold bars; which established his firm in the London Bullion Market, for its technical abilities. Over the next few years, Johnson added a few partners in his company. Kumpulan khutbah jumat terbaru. In 1832, he added George Stokes to the firm, creating the partnership of Johnson and Stokes. Stokes died in 1835, a few years later in 1837, William John Cook (1813–1892) a skilled assayer, joined the firm, creating the partnership of Johnson & Cook.

Then in 1838, George Matthey (1825–1913), joined the firm as an apprentice to Perival Johnson and William Cook, at the young age of 13. George Matthey was an excellent assayer and chemist, he studied at the Royal College of Chemistry; he also proved to Johnson to be a fast learner and became very interested in platinum refining. Matthey developed a 'head for business' and wanted to build Johnson's firm into a great company. In 1851, Johnson made George Matthey a full partner in the firm, creating the Johnson Matthey Company. Matthey pushed Johnson to expand the company's capabilities, Matthey is regarded to be the one who transformed the business into the International Conglomerate it is today.

Johnson Matthey Notable Achievements • 1852 - Appointed as the official assayers to the Bank of England. • 1861 - Approved as refiners to Bank of England • 1875 - supplies platinum leads for the first electric lamps • 1928 - Johnson Matthey patents the only workable process for extraction and refining platinum group metals from Rustenburg ores (see ). • 1946 - wins exclusive contracts for refining British demonetized silver coinage. • 1974 - develops the world’s first catalysts to control vehicle pollution, in May of 1974 • 2000 - receives second MacRobert Award for the Continuously Regenerating Trap (CRT®) system to control emissions from heavy duty diesel vehicles • 2001 - Work starts on dedicated fuel cell membrane electrode assembly manufacturing facility • 2004 - Johnson Matthey celebrates 30 years in the development of auto catalysts • 2012 - Johnson Matthey Battery Systems is formed following the earlier acquisition of Axeon. The business specializes in the design, development and manufacture of integrated battery systems Today, the company is moving in the direction of new technologies including fuel cells, medical devices and emission control catalysts.