Gold Facts

Gold Facts Fascinating insights about the world's most famous precious metal Gold in the ground 1,000 tonnes of rock of the geosphere contain about 5 grams of gold 5.3 metres 1,000 tonnes of rock of geosphere 5 grams of gold The total amount of gold ever mined: 167,000 tonnes This quantity of gold would fill about 120 standard-Sized shipping containers This means... ULTRA LARGE CRUDE CARRIER However, the world's largest supertanker could carry more than 3 times that weight Altogether this gold would weigh 16.5 times more than the Eiffel Tower Current market ThE value of all gold 12 US$8 trillion, the current market value of all the world's available gold in US one-dollar bills would fill about 18 of the world's largest supertankers L111 12 Half of the public debt of the USA 50% of US The value of all available gold is equal to about half of the public debt of the USA (approx. US$15 trillion in 2011) public debt Gold leaf Gold leaf is only 100 nanometres thick, 1/1000 of a sheet of paper gold leaf paper sheet With all the world's available gold... .you could cover a surface area the size of Switzerland in gold leaf. That's about 2 times the size of New Jersey. or Switzerland + New Jersey, USA Gold wire With 60 tonnes of gold, you could make a wire long enough to stretch from Earth to the Sun. Annual supply of gold in 2011: 4,000 tonnes 1,600 from recycled gold and 2,800 from mines. A surplus of more than 400 tonnes went into bank holdings. Central banks' gold holdings US gold reserves amount to 77% of the national foreign exchange reserves. In contrast, China's gold reserves account for only about 1.8% of its total reserves. 77% 1.8% United States of America China Annual gold consumption Jewellery 1,960 tonnes Technology Investment 1,640 tonnes 460 tonnes 1 12 10 equal to about 26 million gold watches equal to about 50 million gold coins of this, 10% was for dental applications. That's about 25 million gold dental crowns and fillings. Sources: TRUSTABLE GOLD.com World Gold Oouncil, Wikipedia, Wolfram Alpha Horologist.com, Trustable Gold compare gold investments