You don't need to be a magician to turn base metal into gold. Buying metal scrap cheap will enable you to turn the scrap metal into gold - and I don't mean scrap gold! Scrap catalytic converters are big business - the interesting part about catalytic converters scrap is its component platinum, which is one of the more expensive precious metals as you can see on our metal prices page. The catalytic converters scrap prices can be quite interesting, especially on account of their platinum content. On this page you'll also find some other metal lots, but the main issue here is really the good old converter.