05-28-2013, 12:28 AM
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Originally Posted by cmac2012
Probably not. I've heard of people in some areas who vie for the privilege to sweep dentists' floors. I read somewhere that the volume of the total amount of known gold in existence (in the possession of mankind) would fill less that a standard Olympic pool.
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How Many Olympic-Sized Swimming Pools Can We Fill With Billionaire Gold? - Forbes
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Many online sources give essentially the same value for the total stocks of above-ground gold; it was about 157,000 metric tons by 2007. If the density of gold is 19.3 grams per milliliter, or 0.0193 tons per liter, then we need to divide the total number by the density (remember the density formula from school? It’s Density = Mass/Volume, so just flip it around). Thus we get about 8.2 million liters of gold. If an Olympic-sized swimming pool has a volume of 2.5 million liters, then we divide and get our answer.
So we would need 3.27 swimming pools to hold the entire global supply of gold, which some argue is the entire amount of gold mined since before the Egyptians began mining gold before 2000 BC. Sixty-six per cent of that is said to have been mined since 1950. It is said that conquistador Francisco Pizarro received a 22-ft. by 17-ft. room full of gold, and two of silver, in exchange for captured Inca ruler Atahualpa in 1532. Pizarro took the gold and then executed Atahualpa by garrote for plotting against the Spanish forces and killing his own brother.
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