Is PALLADIUM a rare earth metal?

PALLADIUM making some headlines

What about PALLADIUM?

As the GOLD and SILVER advocates never stop telling the investment community about their shiny metals there's one metal that seems to be quietly working it's way into the headlines and that is PALLADIUM. 

Not long ago I heard Rick Rule mention PALLADIUM along with PLATINUM as one of his primary investment interests.  Information on these metals is somewhat hard to find but there are a few headlines showing up on the matter:

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/12/31/palladium.aspx#.UswDffu0Zjs 

Sprott Asset Management has one of their funds dedicated to PLATINUM and PALLADIUM and the ticker symbol is SPPP.  Other than that there's one Canadian company with the symbol PAL and an ETF with the symbol
PALL.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/1925841-north-american-palladium-likely-a-multi-bagger?source=yahoo 

I'm not sure what to make of this.  If you have any further information leave a COMMENT below.

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