The NYT, WaPo and Atlantic bout to publish a concerned op-ed about human rights in the area within the week
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.
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
This is hilarious given that China has been actively buying up gold for a long time now.
Suddenly they just gained a lot more.
