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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 1491714, member: 4910&quot;]Olympic Gold Medals Are Made Up Mostly of Silver</p><p><br /></p><p>Next week in London, athletes from around the world will go for the gold. But as it turns out, the Olympic gold medal is mostly made of silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>Weighing in at 412 grams -- or roughly the weight of a can of green beans -- the gold medal is made up of only 1.34%, or about 6 grams of gold.</p><p><br /></p><p>The rest is comprised of 93% silver and 6% copper.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 2012 Olympic medals were made from nearly nine tons of metal from Rio Tinto&#039;s Kennecott Utah Copper mine in Salt Lake City and its Oyu Tolgoi mine in Mongolia.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/olympic-gold-medals-made-mostly-111600613.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/olympic-gold-medals-made-mostly-111600613.html" rel="nofollow">http://finance.yahoo.com/news/olympic-gold-medals-made-mostly-111600613.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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