Golden Amount

When we hold something very dear that we wouldn’t part away with, we Spanish-speaking people say “Ni por todo el oro del mundo” (nope, even if you paid me all the gold there is in the world) . But how much is it worth “todo el oro del mundo”? Anyone expert in gold over there? Thank you!

Here’s an answer from 2013.

So, roughly, a trillion dollars.

The amazing thing about gold is that the amount that exists (above ground) in the world is known with a pretty high degree of accuracy, and that what there is never goes away, since gold is chemically nonreactive and never turns into a material of some other form.

I don’t know about never:slight_smile:

How about all the tea in China? How much are we talking about then?

I had a friend who was fond of the expression
“I wouldn’t __________ for a free weekend in Pismo Beach!”
How much is that worth?

One million, seven hundred thousand metric tons (2012.) That’s 1,700,000,000 kg.

At 2.2 grams per teabag that works out to almost 773 trillion bags.

Thank you, dear subsection of the teeming millions!
I think that I could really appreciate to have the 20mt. gold cube at the backyard, at least for a couple days. I wouldn’t rather take in all the tea, as 1.700.000.000 kg would use some 3,7 million cubic meters of space. And that’s a LOT.

Are you sure about those figures? That works out to 100,000 teabags for every human on the planet.

Now, I like my tea… but that’s a lot of tea.

Let’s see: 1.7B kg of tea is 1.7T grams. At 2.2 grams / teabag, that’s 772 billion teabags. So a few orders a magnitude…

Since we’re in GQ, I’ll just point out that this is completely wrong. For a start, there are a number of fluorides. It even forms a compoundwith Xenon, a noble gas.

There’s a lot of gold in seawater.

Gold, as a practical matter, remains in its pure form except under unusual circumstances, which do not occur frequently enough to have a measurable impact on the amount of known gold that has been recovered. There is a difference between something being completely wrong, and being pedantically nitpickable to death, a risk to which nearly every statement is in jeopardy…

Sorry. When my calculator shows E at the end of the number, I sometimes have trouble with the conversions.

Would anyone like me to diagram a sentence for you?

Sure, box it up in that mea culpa.:rolleyes: