The world's biggest gold vault is under a New York street
About 507,000 bars, 24 m under Manhattan.
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All the gold ever mined fits in one cube
About 22 m per side: shorter than a tennis court.
Pure gold is almost as soft as your fingernail
That is why jewellery mixes in other metals.
Your gold ring isn't gold. Not all of it.
750 inside means 18 carat: a quarter isn't gold.
An Olympic gold medal is almost all silver
Only about 6 grams of it are gold.
Your old phone is a gold mine. Literally.
A ton of phones holds far more gold than a ton of ore.
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