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All The Gold In The World
For the companies exploring for gold, a deposit that has more than one gram of gold for every tonne of earth is an exciting prospect. In fact, in our 2013 report summarizing the world’s gold deposits, we found that the average grade of gold deposits in the world is around that amount: about 1.01 g/t.
Think about that for a moment. One gram (0.035 oz) is equal to the mass of a small paper clip. This small amount of gold is usually not even in one place – it is dispersed through a tonne of rock and dirt in smaller amounts, most of the time invisible to the naked eye. For some companies that have the stars align with easy metallurgy, a deposit near surface, and open pit potential, this gram per tonne deposit may even somehow be economic.
It’s hard to believe that such a small amount of gold could be worth so much, and that is why great visualizations can help us understand the rarity of this yellow metal. Luckily, the folks at Demonocracy.info have done the heavy lifting for us, putting together a series of 3D visualizations of gold bullion bars showcasing the world’s gold that has been mined thus far. Note: these visualizations are a couple of years old and optimistically have the value of gold pegged at US$2,000 per oz, presumably for the ease of calculations.
For those interested, we have also put together a similar slideshow on the topic, showing how much gold, silver, copper, and other metals are mined each year.

Smaller denominations of gold plates: 1 gram, 5 grams, 10 grams, 20 grams, and 1 troy oz of gold.

Larger denominations of gold plates: 50 grams, 100 grams, 250 grams, 500 grams, and 1 kg of gold.

This 400 oz gold bar, at $2,000 per oz gold, is worth the $800,000 cash beside it. The gold bar is extremely heavy, weighing more than three full milk jugs.

Here’s what one tonne of gold looks like. At $2,000 per oz, it’s worth $64.3 million.

Gold is so heavy that the suspension of an average truck would break if it held anymore than pictured above. Even if the truck’s suspension broke, the load of gold in the back could buy 2,660 brand new trucks at an MSRP of $40,000 per truck.

Here’s 10 tonnes of gold compared to 100 tonnes of the yellow metal.

This semi-truck is carrying the maximum load it can legally carry, which is about about 25 tonnes. Here there are 24.88 tonnes of gold, worth $1.6 billion.

The Northrop Grumman B2 Spirit Bomber program cost $44.75 Billion for a total of 21 units built, which averages to $2,130,952,380 per unit. Shown here is the amount of gold it costs to buy one unit.

Here’s the entire gold reserves of the United States government, which is 8,133.5 tonnes.

Here’s the world’s gold reserves by government circa 2012. This is slightly outdated, with China and Russia both having significant increases since then.

All gold mined in history, stacked in 400 oz bars. The 166,500 tonnes here is actually divided into four levels: the bottom level is jewelry (50.5% of all gold), the 2nd level is private investment (18.7%), the third level is world governments (17.4%), and the highest level is other uses for gold such as industry (13.4%).

Lastly, we finish off with an image of all of the world’s mined gold in one cube with dimensions of 20.5m. If it was all melted, it would fit within the confines of an Olympic Swimming Pool.
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For a proper scale 'All the gold in the world' should be placed next to the world.
Just saying...
This again highlights why you should be out there buhing Bitcoin hand over fist. While there is virtually limitless gold on Earth, only 21 million Bitcoins will ever be made.
https://localbitcoins.com
Graphics from above in full resolution @ original site:
http://demonocracy.info/infographics/world/gold/gold.html
One Olympic-sized pool of gold to act as a solid anchor for all currencies of the world. You could also melt it all down into real anchors - each to be tied around every bankster's neck before throwing them into the ocean. Either idea works for me.
Concrete boots are a lot cheaper.
"... cyanide, contracts, HIGH-VOLTAGE! - DONE DIRT CHEAP!"
in case anyone wants to buy gold at *spot price* (no premium), apmex has a special on ebay, see ebay 121580551976, looks like there's a few left
the crazy thing is that it's cheaper through apmex on ebay than it is on apmex's own website
Tungsten-filled gold... ?
Not from Apmex. And not one-ouncers.
mmm...shiny
Where is UK in that countries gold pic ? Iran has more than UK ? And should,nt Germany,s gold be included in the U.S s pile , in fact should,nt Germany,s gold be all that the USA actually has left ?
Italy is the savvy one. Their country is close to defaulting but they keep their gold. Learned from those early Venetians.
That's a mighty big presumption that USA still has Germanys gold, since "we" basically defaulted on the "loan".
Limetless? I don't think you understand the concept. 166,500 tonnes is less then 24 grams per human.
The way we strip resources is the same no matter what resource it is. We take the easy stuff first, the lowest hanging fruit.
I,ve got my 24 grams
How many atoms of Au in those 24grams?
About the 21 million bitcoins. Anyone can start a new bitcoin operation. There are an infinite number of such block chain operations conceivable.
while that is true, there is something called first-mover advantage.
many, many millions of $ have been invested in bitcoin and blockchain infrastructure development.
how much has been invested in peercoin or sexcoin? and how many merchants will accept it?
the situation may change in the future, but for now bitcoin is the default for cryptocurrency.
Sorry, I'll take physical over virtual any day of the week.
100% correct...in stating "for now".
You're also right about "first mover advantage"...
...gold has 6,000 years on crypto currencies.
Now show the one with all the paper gold to scale
What happens when one clever entity acquires all 21 million bitcoin?
A better idea will take its place and the 'clever entity' will have a bunch of zeros and ones that nobody gives a stuff about while living out of dumpsters.
Intrinsic value and all that!
You watch and see...Goldman Sachs and JPM will find a way to make Bitcoin cash and debase the hell out of it!! Either that or collateralize it into worthlessness.
"This again highlights why you should be out there buhing Bitcoin hand over fist. While there is virtually limitless gold on Earth, only 21 million Bitcoins will ever be made."
How much does 21 million bitcoins weigh again? Oh, thats right, bitcoins are only temporary fragments of magnetic polarity that require numerous simultaneous systems in order to exist. That doesn't sound as reassuring as an couple ounces of palmed gold in a fistfight.
coinhead...I like how you bragged on YouTube the other day that you are Fonestar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCM7rMIqxmk
The 166,500 tonnes here is actually divided into four levels: ...
For a proper scale... There is now currently 6 billion ounces of gold available above ground with only 1 billion ounces of silver available.
Approximately 32,300 oz/Ton - = 5/1 Gold/Silver ratio.Now consider all the Gold that will never enter the market.
WooHoooo! Does the word Supply vs. Demand ring a bell?
Yes, gold is heavy.
And forged in the moments of exploding fury in a supernova. Man has tried to turn ___ into gold for ages, and laughingly failed. You can't forge an ELEMENT, fool!
Yes you can:
http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/ele095.html
Well duh, humans are able to make heavier elements by acheiving high enough energy generation. I guess I mean to distinguish lighter elements which cannot be [easily] made by man.
Can be made: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthesis_of_precious_metals#Gold
Cannot be made easily by man in 2015. However, just 200 years ago, cars couldn't be made easily by man either. Who knows what the future will hold.
But the big question is why man would want to create gold. It has limited uses beyond as a fashion accessory. Yes, it could back the financial system, but so could acorns. Yes, it could be used for trade, but so could pieces of paper.
Making that kind of energy is expensive in real terms of recourses burned. Same goes for space mining. Gold has a very finite quantity as applies to earth.
Energy generation does not require burning or consumption of resources.
The Universe is energy, and it is all free in that you don't have to pay bankers to tap it.
Educate yourself. See SIRIUS The Movie.
Acorns and paper can be produced in almost limitless quantity.
Who knows what the future will hold.
Looks and smells like Fiat Gold; Make as much as you want. Spain lost more than 60% of the ir Silver value when they imported North America stolen Silver back home. Look upo EROI. The less energy invested means the less value potential.
http://www.1prime.biz/news/0/%7B07C0B698-FB1A-47D3-81AE-DE680EDE213A%7D.uif
KHARTOUM, Jul 29 (PRIME) -- Russian company Siberian for Mining has found large gold deposits in Sudan with only explored reserves standing at 46,000 tonnes
Good, need me some. I called my deal yesterday to buy some 1oz bars, he was all out. Gold shorts are about to get their balls squeezed and I want to be in on it.
You might want to rephrase that last sentence.
Good thing gold miners never exagerate their claims. And they would never sell stock based on ridiculous prospects, no never. Besides russian gold miners are more honest than your usual gold miner. In the article they say its $298 Billion, which is 'only' 7000 tons. I'm sure they found something pretty good, but probably more along the lines of a few 100 tons, which is still spectacular.
In 1968, the Senate and the National Bureau of Investigation each conducted a separate investigation to determine which are valid. But the court declared only one mother title, two Transfer of Certificate of Titles and its owner as authentic. Consequently, leaving the other titles as null and void, no probative value and non-bankable. In February 4, 1972 , the presiding Judge Enrique Agana handed down the Decision with Compromise Agreement in consideration of sound judicial system and the Tagean-Tallano Clan. When Martial Law was imposed in September 21, 1972 , rapid reversal of the court decision occurred. A state of affair encapsulated in a documentary that sheds light on the proliferation of fake titles in the Philippines until now.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TCOKD2Ln7c
…Good thing gold miners never exagerate their claims....
A recent ZH article spoke of First Mining Financial Corp building a "Mineral Bank" that had attracted the likes of Soros and his ilk to the sphere. CEO Mr. Keith Neumeyer was said to be acquiring gold at the ridiculously low cost of 7-9 USD per OZ of proven and probable reserves.
The recent “discovery” of this phenomenon resulted in his newly founded penny stock going from .25 to nearly .40 USD overnight earlier this week.
I welcome the addition of this particular investment vehicle and will be following its development in the future as I'm a beneficiary of a family holding of deeded mineral rights with proven reserves and would love to see a simpler way to monetize the asset.
In the meantime, anyone interested in buying “physical” gold in at least a better legal location than a boating accident in disputable waters?
Let me know.
Jmo.
Nice.
Dream house.....
Luckily banker alchemy can boost that by 256+ …supply problem solved.
Exactlty. Why try and change LEAD into gold, when you can turn PAPER into gold?? Its one hell of a lot cheaper to do that. Wait until its 500x, and then 1000x, and then 100,000x.....
tale as old as time. Mystics run the fucking planet.
We call it GLD, and at last check it was ~230 claims per oz.
Bullish on Claims per oz!
I have trouble believing those figures, I mean factor in every oz that has ever been mined, refined and turned to bullion, bars, coins, jewelry etc..
There has to be atleast 10x the stated amount in play.
How much gold has china extracted and refined in secret? how much gold have miners hoarded? there are a lot of intangibles.
But the stated amount may be more or less correct if you factor in that the majority of reported gold in bank vaults is probably tungsten lol so....
In anycase I think the total nominal amount of oz in the earths crust is more important.
How much can still be extracted?
If you somehow managed to gather a basketball sized chunk of gold, you are pretty well off.
I sympathize with your sketicism, but there have been really accurate records kept of modern gold mining in the west, which is by far the lions share of it. Sure there's a bunch on the bottom of the ocean, and some has been buried and forgotten about, and some is secretly squirreled away somehwere. But fully 1/3 of that total came just out of South African mines since the 1880's. We can estimate what has been mined globally since then within a few percent. The chinese are raping their deposits (high grading), and could actually get more out of them if they invested more. We know how much gold came out of the new world into spanish vaults, and it was tiny by these standards. Inevitably gold gets converted into cash by desperate owners, at which point you get to count it again.
However, we don't really know how much is out there because people are so secretive about it. But we're off at most by 10-15%, not a factor of 10.
google Annunaki gold mines
There is physical evidence Annunaki were mining gold in Africa more than 200,000 years ago. Did you keep a record of their gold output?
The Universe is stranger than you know.
Good point. This really does need to be considered.
I mean when some of the continent have only recently evolved beyond picking peanuts out of their own poop, then clearly the scale and sophistication of 'mining' operations that comprised of a few knuckle-dragging primates scratching sticks on the ground 200,00 years ago must have yielded a quantity of phyzz over a few millennia that could...gold-plate a pen.
Have some self-respect.
How could you question data that has for thousands of years been the historical audit domain of kings, queens , pharaos, caesars, warlords, conquerors, central bankers, etc. You would dare to suggest that such paragons of virtue would keep secret such valuable information for their own ends? And of course all the gold ever gathered in human history has been mined in the last 40 to 50 years, we are just that good (just because they could build pyramids doesn't mean they could mine)
Tastes like iPad
An olympic swimming pool is 50 meters by 25 meters, but has different depths. At the real olympics they recommend 3 meters. So if you work it out, it actually takes one 6.9 meters deep, or 2+ olympic swimming pools to accomodate all the gold.
Was thinking that. Still, if you've ever seen the impressive aquatics complex at Stanford University, that'll give you an idea of how ridiculously small of an amount that is.
3/4 of the world's surface is underwater. Hehe you know what that means.
And thats where all of my gold is, underwater.
Does the U.S. really have 8133 tons of gold still? I think there's no way!
That shit is GONE!!
Agreed.....it's just not there.
Make me king for a day and our number will increase by 2814.0 T...
...and all the IMF motherfuckers will be at the bottom of the ocean...
i can see my 1.25 lbs right there on the corner, by the pickup truck :)
Is this a rehash of a previous ZH article like a year ago? I didn't see the link to another Zh article but sure thought we seen this infographic along with a silver one.
Infographics from 2013.
Gold: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-14/all-gold-world-definitive-infog...
Silver: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-01/visualizing-all-silver-world
Damn, you're good!
In 2012 alone, global gold production hit 2,700 tonnes, or more than a third of the supposed US holdings that year in the graphic. So not buying these graphics at all, they are waaaaaaay underestimating the tonnage mined to date.
The US holdings are likely a lie, it is doubtful the US has any gold left, at least unencumbered.
And to think, there's less physical silver above ground than that...
-Argenta
2/3 less.
Just wondering, the upper level of that pile is supposedly for industrial uses of gold so I wonder if most of that is in the landfill along with the silver.
calling Karen Hudes and a few other ? ...
And that's why many believe gold should never be money
so where does this put platinum?
I'll take the tonne of Gold and the woman on the couch.......and the pickup.
Doesnt matter...the chemtrails will kill you before you can sell your gold.
Chemtrails are a myth, there is no such thing. They are "con"trails, condensation from the engines' combustion. Seriously, if the government wanted to poison you they wouldn't be doing it from 30,000 feet in broad daylight in highly visible ice trails behind commercial airliners, lol...
Well if you can fake it... Long eye oppening
Barrick Gold Corphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?t=213&v=CCLu5hpYYWI
i gots some o'dat, but you can hardly see it.
U.S. Dollars (paper goods)
Fountain Pen
Swiss Army Knife
Truck
Wooden Pallet
Man
Woman
Clothing
Shoes
Semi Truck
B2 Bomber
House
Statue of Liberty
Helicopter
Display Sign
Swimming Pool
Those are the items pictured above and from all I have seen, everyone on this comment board seems to only value the gold. What is wrong with all of you?
PEOPLE worked for and created all of that. When are we going to start valuing PEOPLE?
You are all fools. Give me a man or woman that values their word and honors their deed and together, we can recreate all of those items again.
If you were alone in the desert on your last breath and you had that 20.5m cube of gold, which one of you wouldn't trade it for a gallon of potable water?
No wonder you're so easily manipulated - you don't know what's valuable.
You miss the point that the transactions of trade for all of those created items need to be mediated by money, which is what gold represents -- the only form of money that cannot be corrupted long term by bankers, ie on the scale of several deccades. You can't store your retirement nest egg in ball point pens.
“ Observations on Reversionary Payments, first published in 1769 and running through six editions by 1803. “A shilling put out at 6% compound interest at our Saviour’s birth would . . . have increased to a greater sum than the whole solar system could hold, supposing it a sphere equal in diameter to the diameter of Saturn’s orbit.”
http://michael-hudson.com/2004/01/the-mathematical-economics-of-compound...
Who is going to pay creditor who loaned Jesus a shilling at 6%? Is Jesus going to give him a sphere of gold equal to the diameter of Saturn’s orbit. Since this calculation was done in 1769, then the sphere of Gold is probably equal to several solar systems now, as compound interest starts doubling even faster with time.
The idea of fixed quantities of gold being some sort of anchor, falls apart when one examines exponential of compound interest.
Is a “gold as money” economy going to eliminate usury, especially compound interest math at the heart of debt instruments? To ask the question is to answer it – no and even hell no. Those who hold gold will not part with “their precious” unless they get their pound of flesh.
The best anchor would be a bancor system that fluxes in relation to goods and services. Goods and services are relatively constant in international trade, and said trade is only barter.
All money is law, it is not metal. Law would have to code for natural curves, not exponentials.
How does the number shown (166,000 tonnes) compare to the stated amount owned by nations plus all of the "gold" in funds like GLD plus all other known holders (I gues these should add up to half if half is said to be jewlery). Do the numbers come close to adding up?
What are you trying to say?
Can't change my avatar. Are you guys asleep? _JOHNLGALT?
Water tubes to the floor of the ocean. Oh you don't know what water tubes are. We use them on Q99X2 for mining the oceans. They are tubes suspended as corrugated rings of pressurized hydraulic fluid in the center of a concrete wall and filled with air passages all the way to the floor of the ocean. We use them for mining gold. Ok ok ok how about Caterpilar robots that crawl across the ocean floors swinging metal detectors back and forth. When they get a woody they start digging. No Hows about extracting the gold out of all the goldfish in the oceans.
Would like to see a cube representing all the paper claims on gold + allegedly 100% allocated accounts versus actual gold in world.
This is porn for Goldcore, Sprott and the rest of the gold scammers.
Here's a option. There's a great amount of gold in sea water. California desperately needs drinking water. As part of the RO system needed to turn seawater into potable water, why not spend a bit more and extract the gold? It could pay for the system and everyone wins.
-Argenta
Demonic Truth :
1) 99% gold is in the centre of earth , in the inner core . Due to being heavy, gold, Platinum etc. heavy metals sank to the center of earth. The temperature there is same as on the Sun 5400 deg. C
2) Inner core is surrounded by a lake of fire , mostly molten Iron which circulates just like blood within the veins of a person.
3) The top layer of solid earth where exist mountains, trees, houses , oceans etc. where we live in deception.
The lake of fire is the Hell where evil people are sent for punishment. Those who love money & wealth & do evil in order to get it , they are attracted to the inner core where the most gold exists , in order to reach there , they get entrapped in the hell , the lake of fire for their doom.
Repent Rich or you are bound for the ultimate wealth below alogwith its ultimate punishment.
First of all, your history is all wrong. Civilization predates 6,000 BC. Proof? The Hapgood map, showing that there was a good cartographer before this ice age: https://s3.amazonaws.com/khudes/Hapgoodmap.png Or look at the Sphinx, and the signs of ancient civilizations off the coasts, that were submerged when the sea level rose 400 feet.
Second of all, there are 1,800,000 metric tonnes of gold in the international monetary reserves of the nations contained in the Global Debt Facility. The Global Debt Facility is administered by the Board of Governors of the World Bank and IMF. The lackeys of the Network of Global Corporate Control identified by Vitali, Glattfelder, and Battiston of ETH Zurich http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1107/1107.5728v2.pdf have liens against their personal assets for trying to prevent the Global Currency Reset. https://s3.amazonaws.com/khudes/Twitter9.28.15.pdf
A good place to start learning about true history, as opposed to the Network of Global Corporate Control lies: http://www.naaij.org/2013/10/12/the-greatest-heist-in-history-the-jesuits-bankers-hid-the-worlds-treasure/