What would have actually happened to the gold in the "Goldfinger" scenario?

I’m pretty sure there’s a lot of overlap between the posters in this thread and the one I’m about to cite.

But as this topic spreads out past the fate of the nuked gold in Goldfinger, it’s starting to get pretty well overlapped with this other recent thread that is also spreading into a general discussion of Bond plots & actors.

I don’t say that to object to either thread or to ask they be combined; IMO that’d be a bad move. I’m just thinking most posters here might want to see / participate in that thread too if they have not already.