This is hilarious given that China has been actively buying up gold for a long time now.
Suddenly they just gained a lot more.
-20 points to freedom index
Eat it gold hoarders
Incoming articles about Uighur oppression in the area
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
wow i had no idea, thanks
Off by an order of magnitude. This amounts to 0.08% of cumulatively extracted gold. Still not small potatoes.
Shit yeah thanks will edit
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
^ better perspective than what I said
The NYT, WaPo and Atlantic bout to publish a concerned op-ed about human rights in the area within the week
