Quote - I  is palladium expensive or cheap?  What does it look like?  The necklace was quite cheap.

Current prices for gold, silver, platinum and palladium here.

Palladium seems to be about half the price of gold; silver looks almost worthless... platinum most expensive, just ahead of gold.

An ex gf was (probably still is) a jeweller, and if I recall correctly palladium is like very highly polished silver but doesn't tarnish much, if at all.

It's used in jewellery because it's quite malleable and relatively easy to work with.

So let's assume that your necklace isn't made of Polonium. Let's also consider that - being cheap and coming from a market stall - it's probably not made of palladium either... 

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