510,072,000 sq km is the surface of the earth (google says). 510,072,000 x 1,000,000 = 510,072,000,000,000 x 4 = 2,040,288,000,000,000 metres cubed of gold and platinum on earth... 2,040,288,000 cubed kilometres... Somehow I doubt this... "All the gold mined in the world in history would fit in a cube 60 feet on each side"....
are you sure about that? it does sound a little on the low side... also remember that just because there are supposedly these enormous amounts of gold in (or near) the earth's core - this does not mean that man would ever be able to gather/mine any of this gold. it may as well be on Pluto mate :lol:
Not sure at all. It is only information I have heard, never seen the cube myself When I went to the old gold mines at ballarat, they played a video showing that a game of NFL could be played around a cube of all the gold ever mined on a pitch (took up a bit under a quarter i believe). "The best estimates available suggest that the total amount of gold ever mined up to the end of 2009 was approximately 165,600 tonnes, of which around 65% has been mined since 1950." http://news.silverseek.com/GoldIsMoney/1258664032.php http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...c-Tons)-Would-Fit-In-2-Olympic-Swimming-Pools
wouldn't this be like a basketball? The inner air part is the earth and the outer skin would be the gold. If we take the volume of the bball from the volume of the inside, we should get the same. The basketball skin being 4m thick. Earth diameter = 12756 (at the equator) Volume = 4/3 x pi x (r^3) r=6378 giving earth volume at 1,086,781,292,339 cubic km Now the earth + 4m thick ==> Earth diameter = 12756 .004 r=6378.002 given the earth + gold at 1,086,782,314,711 cubic km take one from the other ==> 1,022,372 cubic km of gold shell. Hope my maths is correct.
I hate to say it, but I doubt it. If this were the case (please stop and consider this a moment), and assuming the lower of the two calculated figures in this thread (which I can see the methodology of calculation of, and can agree with both), and knowing there are approximately 7 billion people on the planet... Taking 1,022,372 cubic km of gold, that equates to 1,022,372,000,000,000 cubic metres of gold. Expressed in cubic centimetres, this is 1,022,372,000,000,000,000,000. Multiply that by 19.3 (weight of 1cc of gold) and you get to 19,731,779,600,000,000,000,000 grams of gold, divide this by 31.10347 (grams to a troy ounce) and you get to 634,391,583,961,532,266,335 (and change). That would simply mean there was approximately 90,627,369,137 ounces of gold on the planet for every man woman and child alive today. That is ninety billion, six hundred and twenty seven million, three hundred and sixty nine thousand, one hundred and thirty seven ounces. Each. I call crap on the original article.
Guys... It's the Daily Mail. It's a pseudo-intellectual tabloid UK newspaper. What more do you expect than this tosh? This article will be debated in the crumbling upper-middle class households of Britain, causing children to have arguments with daddy across the dinner table, in between servings of regrettably working-class supermarket food (whatever happened to the good old days where we could put life on the credit card?) Quite an amusing image really...
Reading this article the other day on New Scientist, the theory of an bombardment with meteors containing gold does not hold. If this were the case, all rocks dating from this period would be infested with gold, however sedimentary rocks from this period show no gold content, only basalt type rocks do, suggesting that they originate from earths mantle. Also, the moon and other planetary bodies in our solar system would have a significant layer of gold as well, which is suspiciously absent. The only thing that came in this bombardment was water and organic molecules.
yeah, just look at the other articles to the right. you'll get the picture of what the tabloid is about
