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• Rodeo@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Gold also isn’t all that rare. It’s value is so high because of jewelry marketing, not rarity.

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  • oce@jlai.lu ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You may be confusing with diamonds. Gold is, and in fact, any element heavier than iron are pretty rare because they cannot be created by stars alone according to current models, they need more extreme and rare astrophysics phenomenons like supernova and black holes.

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    • Rodeo@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes I think that is the exact confusion I had.

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  • TheChurn@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Gold is rare, compared to just about every other element, in accessible areas of earth. All the gold ever discovered on Earth would fit inside a 23 meter (75 foot) cube. This is about 244 thousand tons, in all of human history.

    Compare this to iron, where just the United States produces 46 Million tons in 2022 alone.

    There is plenty of gold deep within the Earth - it is very dense, so it sank towards the core when Earth was recently formed - but on the surface and the proximal crust, it is not found in abundance.

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    • 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That is a mind blowing fact about all gold fitting in 23 cubic meters. I had to fact check it because it sounds so absurd: www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21969100

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    • brakenium@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Is that 23mx23mx23m or 23 cubic meters?

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      • swicano@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The first one, 23x23x23

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      • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Those…Are the same thing?

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