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All the gold ever mined and all the gold still in the Earth is worth over 12 trillion dollars. At today's price at around $1650 that is over 7.4 billion ounces. All the silver is worth 522 billion dollars. At around $31 and ounce that is 16 billion ounces.
All the platinum is worth almost two trillion dollars which is around 1.2 billion ounces.
That makes all the Gold, Silver, and Platinum on Earth worth almost 15 trillion dollars.
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In other words, not enough to zero out America's supposed debts even if we had all of those precious metals ever mined; and India has far more gold we do. China and Australia are the world's biggest gold producers. In America, Nevada and Alaska are the biggest gold mining States. Large silver mines in Mexico, Peru and China. South Africa, Russia and the U.S. have the most platinum. Seems that there would be a high risk of foreign dependancy on gold and silver for America to rely heavily on those metal standards presently as currency backing.
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Indicates that we're better situated financially in timber and cattle.
Nevada gold...cattle there rustling in the news currently...just noting those convergence points of interest, imo.