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Thar's gold, I tells ya, gold ...
#28459 03/21/14 04:19 PM
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grelber Offline OP
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Interesting claim (on CBC's The Current, this morning) ...

All the gold that has ever seen the light of day, if assembled together and combined into a single 'lump', would be the size of a tennis court to a height of ca 35 feet (10.668 m).

Tennis court = 120 feet x 60 feet = 36.576 m x 18.288 m or 7,200 ft2 = 668.88 m2

Thus, a lump = 252,000 ft3 = 7,136 m3; this would be equivalent to a cube ~63 feet or ~19.25 m on a side.

Re: Thar's gold, I tells ya, gold ...
grelber #28460 03/22/14 02:44 PM
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It is a rather amazing statistic, I have seen it on numerous sites so I assume that it is true. But still fantastic that it so small.


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