Amazing fact of the day
 

Gold:
The world produces a cube of gold that is about 4.3 meters cube every year.
In other words, all of the gold produced worldwide in one year could just about fit in the average person's living room!

Platinum:
If you assume that the world has produced 3.6 million ounces per year for 50 years to estimate the total worldwide supply, all of the platinum in the world would fit in a cube that is 6.3 meters (about 20 feet) on a side. In other words, all of the platinum in the entire world would easily fit in the average home!


http://money.howstuffworks.com/question213.htm

I hope you find this as fascinating as I do :thumbsup

Neat.. my wedding band is platinum and my engagement ring is gold :)

very intersting, cool website btw

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damn

i would have thought that more would be produced than that

love this site, there's a tv show like this also on discovery. How it is made.

damn. I've heard some rumors that the core of jupiter is mostly diamond and precious minerals due to the extreme gravity and presence of numerous gasses in its atmosphere under 1000 times earths gravity.

maybe someday we will know, but not in our lifetime.

Well if you take the 4 meter cube, split it in very little cubes and think how much gold is needed for a single jewelery ... you can make a shitload of jewelery with a cube that big :P

now THAT is something :thumbsup

But isn't there like one element more rare than platinum, costs like $500000 per gram. Damn shibby.

you serious?

wow thats pretty cool good read

Try to sell unstable elements :) You'll get better results

that is fascinating

nobody wants unstable elements! they will desintegrate and leave radioactive traces all over your house and make you die of heavy cancer! :Graucho

interesting

interesting stuff

Yea ... well they are there for what ... 1/100000 seconds ? :P

and what a 1/100000second it is! :1orglaugh

i dont know why people value it so much because it is rare, its like saying my fingernail is valuable because it only grows on my finger , noone elses finger is like it

dude nobody cares about your fingernail :1orglaugh

worst argument EVAR :1orglaugh

wow, no wonder gold is so expensive!!

absolutely right, the price is something like that , and I'm sure it's stable element , anyone would like to help ? :helpme

Ha, that's really cool, I like reading new and interesting facts everyday!

wow, it's not imaginable how rare things can be. That's the reason they are so precious

Thats pretty neat!

On a side note, diamonds arent really that precious. They just have a really, really, good ad campain.

Kewl .. Very INteresting :thumbsup

I did not know that "weird wild stuff" johnny :winkwink:

Ive heard those facts/stats before, still pretty amazing. Golden Nugget in Vegas has the biggest nugget in the world something like 100 + or so LBS

It is nice to know something new everyday! Thanks for sharing!

bump yo

Warren Buffett owns like 1/3 of the worlds supply of Platinum. :)

serious?

Where'd you learn that?

Good reading, thanks for sharing.

I doubt it.

cool fact

That site has been in my bookmarks for ages.. good site to hit up from time to time when you are bored.

whip cream

and where exactly is this cube located?

i think Nelly owns 1/3 of the world's platinum.. he stores it on his teef.

Well,

http://www.howstuffworks.com/

simply kicks ass. I've been checking out that site for years, and it just keeps getting better and better. Not perfect, but better.
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