10 Fascinating Facts About Gold (+2K Views)

Lorimer Wilson April 2, 2014 2 Comments 3,504 Views

Did you know that more gold has been found in the United States (followed extremely closely by Canada) than any other country? Read on to learn 9 more fascinating facts about gold that you may not have read anywhere else.

The infographic* below comes from the Doc Zone (www.cbc.ca/doczone/) with Ann-Marie MacDonald.

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*http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/episode/the-secret-world-of-gold.html?subpage=infographic

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2 comments

silver morgan
April 26, 2013 at 2:48 am

I’m very bullish about our economic status, I believe the nation is wise to obtain palladium and different physical items.
SeniorD
April 22, 2013 at 9:33 am

Another interesting thing about Gold is that there is a massive amount of Gold that is contained in seawater! These trace amount of microscopic Gold can be filtered out, something the Koch’s have already looked into, since they also own filtering media manufacturing companies!

If filtering “out” Gold From Seawater (GFS) ever becomes economically feasible then the value of Gold might actually go down since any Company with enough resources (pun intended) could begin to mine the Ocean for Gold, and hopefully they would help clean up the seawater while they are doing it!

This is just one of the reasons that I think that Silver will outperform Gold as a long term investment, especially for those with small amounts of money to invest.