Visualizing The Most Valuable Substances By Weight

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While gold is undoubtedly one of the most traded substances on earth, it also happens to be one of the most valuable substances by weight. Although prices fluctuate, one gram of gold will cost you on average around $35. This got us thinking about how much other primarily naturally occurring substances out there cost.

This new infographic, via ValueWalk, explores how much you would pay for a gram of everything from saffron, widely recognised as the world’s most expensive spice, to platinum and rhodium. While the market for these goods can’t match the sizeable gold market, whose depth and liquidity is unparalleled, the trading prices of these substances can widely surpass that of gold; though like gold, the prices of these substances are subject to fluctuations.

BullionVault.com's infographic below shows just how much a gram of Iranian Beluga caviar would set you back, and how much you should expect to pay for the radioactive chemical plutonium.

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Sat, 01/09/2016 - 21:18 | 7023882 o r c k
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Californium here I come.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 21:34 | 7023921 0b1knob
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You are confusing "value" with "cost".   Californium is incredibly expensive to produce but has no utilitarian value at all.   No one would would take an ounce of Californium for an ounce of gold for instance.   For one thing an ounce of Californium would give you a lethal dose of radiation poisoning in a few seconds. 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 21:37 | 7023937 Durrmockracy
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What is the cost of "veblen goods" by volume?

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 21:35 | 7023929 Urban Roman
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Po-210? Where's that?

Should be somewhere near Cf..

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 21:37 | 7023939 BlindMonkey
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The upper infographic has Californium @ $27 Billion a gram and the lower has it @ $27 Million.  Sombody is adding a set of zeros somewhere.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 21:20 | 7023885 Kirk2NCC1701
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Diamonds are a girl's best friend.

Most US Preppers hate them because they can't afford them.  That's why they love Silver.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 21:30 | 7023914 A Nanny Moose
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Thanks to Cecil Rhodes and Eddy Bernays. Diamonds are evil glass bought with Genocide.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 21:31 | 7023915 A Nanny Moose
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Dupe

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 21:37 | 7023940 Slippery Slope
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Diamonds will get you laid, in an apocalypse. However, there's a cartel that keeps the price high.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 21:20 | 7023887 Tinky
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Bogus chart; no mention of HP printer ink

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 21:21 | 7023889 robertocarlos
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It has to be brains.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 21:25 | 7023902 seek
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What, no inkjet printer ink?

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 21:29 | 7023912 Jay
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Judging from the hospital bill, those radioactive tracers used in nuclear medicine must be pretty pricy too.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 21:32 | 7023916 roisaber
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Most of the shit on that list is not fungible. Measuring it by weight is disingenuous, when so many other attributes factor into its value. And of course, we all know that trying to measure things in dollar terms is a pointless exercise at this point. Why not measure the value of gold in terms of Star Wars Credits, or Final Fantasy Gil?

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 21:36 | 7023930 Slippery Slope
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I still got saffron from a trip to India, which I never used.

I wonder if shat happens, if some East Indian will trade me for gold.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 21:36 | 7023931 Deep_Out-of-the...
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The author of the article does know that a whale is a mammal, right? Beluga caviar in fact comes from a sturgeon, like all caviar.

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