Gold is not as rare one might think. (IMAGE)

University of Göttingen

Gold is not as rare one might think.

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Gold is not as rare one might think. The problem is that 99.999% of Earth’s stores of the gold and other precious metals are locked away in the Earth’s core, around 3,000 km inside the Earth and thus far beyond the reaches of humankind.

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Wikipedia/Slav4|Ariel Palmon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold#/media/File:Gold_bullion_ap_001.JPG

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