2006-07-08 16:43:44 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
all of it except for what has been used on satelites and rockets that are still in space. You dont really expect anyone to know the answer to this question do you. Thats like asking us to make you smarter, it aint happening
2006-07-08 17:38:28 · answer #1 · answered by nehownewhere 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If all the gold on earth was melted down, you would have a pile 30 feet by 50 feet by 100 feet. That is all the gold that had been found up to 10 years ago. I remember reading a report on this someplace . But more gold is being mined every day, so no one knows how much is on earth.
2006-07-08 23:59:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
nobody knows how much gold there is IN the earth
but we do have estimates of how much we have taken out of the earth and refined
we have been doing it for a long time but most of what has been refined is still available (although some is at the bottom of the sea with the ship it went down with and some is just buried or lost)
from the wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold
"At the end of 2001, it was estimated that all the gold ever mined totalled 145,000 tonnes [4]."
note that the wikipedia gives a footnote for their source as
http://www.gold.org/discover/knowledge/faqs/
there are many interesting gold facts at www.gold.org
2006-07-08 23:52:17 · answer #3 · answered by enginerd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has been estimated that less then 5% of the gold the exists on the planet has been taken out of the ground.. Most Gold is locked up in sulfides, tellurides and the method of getting it out of ore is costly and the cost of getting out of the ground is high. As the prices of gold goes up due to global uncertainly and the Chicoms loading up the break even cost of gold in most hardrock mines (with current operations is at about $300/oz)
2006-07-09 22:29:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
not as much as lay in our core if you were to take all the gold from the core which by the way is only 5% that would be enough to cover the entire earth to our legs
2006-07-08 23:46:53 · answer #5 · answered by collegeb16 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think any one knows for sure, but, one thing I do know is a lot of "new" gold jewelry people buy is just old gold melted down and made into something new
2006-07-08 23:48:32 · answer #6 · answered by GD-Fan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
None, it's all been melted by the Sun!
Muahahahahahaha
:-)
2006-07-08 23:47:44 · answer #7 · answered by The Techie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Too much & not enough.
2006-07-08 23:46:09 · answer #8 · answered by Rick A 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not enough for everybody...
2006-07-09 00:44:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
not enough i took it all
2006-07-08 23:47:41 · answer #10 · answered by jon n 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋