The most valuable substances on Earth
lovemoney staff
22 June 2023
Precious materials
Rob Lavinsky, iRocks.com – CC-BY-SA-3.0 [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]
Iranian beluga caviar: $5.60 (£4.40) per gram
Luisa Leal Photography/Shutterstock
Crème de la Mer: $7.05 (£5.60) per gram
Estée Lauder
Saffron: around $7.54 (£5.99) per gram
Depo Photos/ABACA/ABACA/PA Images
To'ak chocolate: up to $9.80 (£7.78) per gram
To'ak Chocolate
Platinum: $31.56 (£25) per gram
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Palladium: $40 (£31.80) per gram
Sunshine Seeds/Shutterstock
Gold: $62.13 (£49.36) per gram
Frank May/DPA/PA Images
Caterpillar fungus: up to $110 (£87) per gram
China Photos/Stringer/Getty
Rhodium: $150 (£119) per gram
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Iridium: $160 (£127) per gram
Wikimedia
Da Hong Pao tea: $1,400 (£1.1k) per gram
Sadjack/Pixabay
Coral snake venom: $4,000 (£3.2k) per gram
Patrick K. Campbell/Shutterstock
Plutonium: $4,000 (£3.2k) per gram
mooshuu/Flickr
Taaffeite gems: $12,500 (£9.9k) per gram
Gem Glow/YouTube
Soliris: $22,767 (£18k) per gram
Nikolay Litov/Shutterstock
Tritium: $30,000 (£23.8k) per gram
Unicus/Shutterstock
Benitoite: $42,500 (£33.7k) per gram
Art_girl/Shutterstock
Red Beryl: $50,000 (£39.6k) per gram
Albert Russ/Shutterstock
Serendibite: $90,000 (£71.3k) per gram
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Grandidierite: $129,500 (£102.6k) per gram
American-thai [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)]
The rarest pure diamonds: $134,750 (£106.8k) per gram
Bjoern Wylezich/Shutterstock
Painite: $300,000 (£236k) per gram
Strickja [Public domain]
Red diamonds: $5 million (£4m) per gram
Courtesy Rio Tinto
Californium 252: $27 million (£21.4m) per gram
Shutterstock
Antimatter: $62.5 trillion (£49.6tn) per gram
GiroScience/Shutterstock
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