Yuritopiaposadism [none/use name] to news • 1 day agoChina discovers large gold deposits in multiple regions, adding 168 tons of identified resourcesexternal-linkmessage-square12 fedilinkarrow-up188
arrow-up188external-linkChina discovers large gold deposits in multiple regions, adding 168 tons of identified resourcesYuritopiaposadism [none/use name] to news • 1 day agomessage-square12 Commentsfedilink
minus-squarePeeOnYou [he/him]@lemmygrad.mlhexbear7·18 hours agois 168 tons a large deposit? i don't know much about mining but that doesn't seem like it would be a lot linkfedilink
minus-squarecourier8377 [he/him, comrade/them]hexbear7·edit-27 hours ago~201,296 tons of gold have been extracted cumulatively throughout human history so this is a significant amount of almost [EDIT 0.1%] of that sum link
minus-squareProletarianDictator [none/use name]hexbear3·8 hours agoOff by an order of magnitude. This amounts to 0.08% of cumulatively extracted gold. Still not small potatoes. link
minus-squarePeeOnYou [he/him]@lemmygrad.mlhexbear4·16 hours agowow i had no idea, thanks linkfedilink
minus-squareGeobloke@lemm.eehexbear6·edit-214 hours agoNo, not really. It depends on the grade as well, but as an example, the largest single gold mine in Australia produced 4.2 t of gold in 2019 alone *** edit changed 14.2 to 4.2 linkfedilink
minus-squarecourier8377 [he/him, comrade/them]hexbear1·edit-29 hours ago^ better perspective than what I said link
is 168 tons a large deposit? i don't know much about mining but that doesn't seem like it would be a lot
~201,296 tons of gold have been extracted cumulatively throughout human history so this is a significant amount of almost [EDIT 0.1%] of that sum
Off by an order of magnitude. This amounts to 0.08% of cumulatively extracted gold. Still not small potatoes.
Shit yeah thanks will edit
wow i had no idea, thanks
No, not really. It depends on the grade as well, but as an example, the largest single gold mine in Australia produced 4.2 t of gold in 2019 alone
*** edit changed 14.2 to 4.2
^ better perspective than what I said