How Much Metal is in the World?

Written By Jimmy Mengel

Posted September 23, 2013

Outside the Numbers

  • 1:10.7 the historical cumulative gold-to-silver production ratio
  • 6.3   size, in meters, of a cube that could hold the total worldwide supply of platinum in the world
  • 1802  – the year palladium was discovered and named
  • 161,000   tons of gold have been mined throughout history, enough to fill two Olympic swimming pools.
  • 1,411,475 tons of silver have been mined throughout history
  • 3.6 million amount of platinum, in troy ounces, produced each year