The 09ers

Explorations In The Sierra Nevadas

01 2009

Gold and Trivia Day

It’s true. While Christmas and New Years steal all the attention, Trivia day - celebrated every January 4th - comes right on their heels and is best not forgotten.

What better way to celebrate than with some gold-related trivia?

The ten billion ounces of gold in the world would fit into a cube roughly 25 meters (about 82 feet) on a side. If you could form such a cube by gathering every scrap of gold that man has ever mined into one place, you could only build about one-third of the Washington Monument. Total annual production of gold would most likely fit in your living room.


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