Refining platinum?

[joakim]

What do I need to refine it to platinum?

[Supamav]

Platinum as far as I am aware can only be obtained by destroying asteroids, and purchasing through a terminal or from a ship merchant.

See the the info below at the wiki that explains fully what Platinum can be used for and refind from.

WIKI:
https://nomanssky.gamepedia.com/Platinum

Also, and this is news to me, some changes have been made to refining Platinum, see this post:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/275850/discussions/0/1746720717342294501/

[EkSkietKettie]

add sliver and gold into your large refiner to get platinum... if i remember correctly

[Jeve "Shameless" Greenmoon]

You can make platinum by combining silver and gold. One of each per unit of platinum you wish to make. You'll need a medium or large refiner first, but those aren't too hard to make once you've aquired the recipe through the base-building missions.

[bba525]

Originally posted by Supamav:

Platinum as far as I am aware can only be obtained by destroying asteroids, and purchasing through a terminal or from a ship merchant.

I occasionally find it in underground minerals.

[japp_02]

Not worth to craft, you are wasting your time.
Just buy it in wealthy systems when you see it in space station terminals. Buy a good quantity, you need it for various things, for frigate repairs, for broken tech units on planets, for a lot of receipes etc.
Same for Gold, Silver, Pure Ferite, Magnetized Ferite, Copper. Always have about 500-1000 of it, or you will always run to get it which is no good.

Only things that are really worth to craft are objects which pay 1M+ like Explosives, Fusion Reactors etc.

[david.smelser]

https://nms-refinery.firebaseapp.com/#platinum

[clannagh]

Originally posted by japp_02:

Not worth to craft, you are wasting your time.

The gold silver refine is handy if newer players want to quickly repair a frigate as you can get gold and silver readily from shooting space rocks. Platinum rocks are rare.

But yeah otherwise just stockpile on a summonable spare ship.

[Angelo Dante]

Also- platinum processed in the large refiner becomes nanites.