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6 October 2007, 03:44 AM | #1 |
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If all the gold ever mined was forged into a cube it would only measure 19 metres square. It would fit onto my small front lawn. Approx 166,000 tonnes to 2007, 66% of which mined since 1950.
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You can put that on my lawn any day :)
Seems strange though, Fort Knox seems a lil' too big for such a small % |
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The last time I read something like that, it was a cube the size of the base of the Eifel tower. JJ
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Are you nuts? That damn base would be at least 50 m x 50 m = 2500 sq.m!!
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I did a rough and ready double check by checking the mass of a kg of gold and then multiplying it up. Seemed to be correct.
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If that 328 feet is just one side of the base, then to convert that into square feet, you would have to multiply 328 x 328 = 107,584 square feet!!
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Well, if its in a cube, then it would be 19 cubic meters.
That would be a pile (~60 feet) 19 meters long by 19 meters wide, by 6 stories tall.. |
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Get in the back of my car and I will drive you both back to my front lawn, where the gold is.
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So is that where you got you glasses from
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Oops
I meant cube of course. There's my HND "poor mans degree" in Physics showing it's worth.
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As long as all you tossers just remember where most of that gold comes from ......
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That's how you can afford to buy all of those lovely Daytonas.
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I KNEW it had to come from somewhere like that, Paul!
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Forgot to mention that the statement is WRONG.
I actually did the real math and the size would be 21.29 metres cubed. A gold kilobar (100g) is 114x51x10mm - 58140mm cubed or 5.184 X10 power of -5 metre cubed That would mean 1 cubic metres = 17,200 kgs 21.29 cubed X 17,200 = 166,000,000 kgs or 166,000 metric tonnes 21.29 metres cube. What a nice feature for the garden.
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Diamonds? By the way, again Bull has got his hands in that too I suppose. |
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In the papers here ,a nice story about a greenish diamond found in the Northwest province.It is 7000 CARATS !!!!!!! The Cullinan was "only" 3000.The green one can be real or a hoax.It is yet to be confirmed.If its real,its unlikely to originate from SA and is then most likely,to come from higher up in Africa.Thats with all its implications ........ Personally,I think its a BS story.The Brit who "takes care of it ' seems a bit of a scammer. Time will tell. |
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Metres cubed is different than square metres.
So the 19m cubed sounds about right from what I recall. http://www.gold.org/value/markets/su...roduction.html
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What a silly thread!
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Your watch must be about 1/2 of that........
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Ok Ok too hard. What strap would you wear with it?
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