Is that 23mx23mx23m or 23 cubic meters?
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TheChurn@kbin.social 9 months agoGold 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.
brakenium@lemm.ee 9 months ago
swicano@kbin.social 9 months ago
The first one, 23x23x23
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Those…Are the same thing?
southernbrewer@lemmy.world 9 months ago
23x23x23 is 12167 cubic meters.
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Okay I see where I fucked that up
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