If all the gold of the world to make a cube, it will be quite small

Only 20, 5 m in poperechnike

Gold has been used as currency for thousands of years. Its distinctive color attracts people, and it is quite rare. But how rare?

If you take everything ever found gold and alloys it in one cube, his party of 20, 5 meters in diameter. This is less than the width of the Olympic pool, and its weight will be 166 500 tonnes.

Most of the gold in the earth's crust is believed to researchers originated from meteorites.

The United States has in reserve 8133, 5 tons of gold - it is much more than any other country in the world. Germany is second with 3396, 3 tons. Only seven countries have more than 1,000 tons of gold in reserve, but it may be untrue.

Many central banks in the Western world deliberately lease their gold reserves and gold hidden using accounting tricks to keep its prices low. They do this because the lower gold prices forced the economy to look more stable.

via factroom.ru