Q: How many pounds does a gold bar weigh?
A: 27
Q: What is the chemical symbol for Gold?
A: AU
Q: What is the Latin word for gold?
A: Aurum
Q: If you stacked 200,000 sheets of hammered thin gold, how high would it be?
A: 1” (one inch)
Q: Which state is the largest gold-mining state in the U.S.?
A: Nevada
I bet you didn’t know
- All of the gold ever mined in the world could be compressed into an 18-yard cube, which is about 1/10 the mass of the Washington Monument.
- All the gold mined in the world in history would fit in a cube 60 feet on each side. It would fit in the space underneath the Eiffel Tower.
- The earliest gold jewelry dates back to 3000 BC from the Sumer civilization in what is today Southern Iraq.
- To figure out the amount of gold in a metal, take its karat and divide by 24 (pure gold).
- Gold can be hammered into sheets so thin sunlight can shine through it.
- The Incas referred to gold as the "tears of the Sun."