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Friday, March 25, 2016

A total of 183,600 tonnes of gold is in existence above ground, as of 2014. This can be represented by a cube with an edge length of about 21 meters. It is estimated that only 20% of the world gold was taken from the ground.

Gold in Quartz found at the Cannon Gold Mine.
2.1 x 1.5 cm specimen of massive quartz literally shot through with gold.

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