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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Oldhoopster, post: 3069048, member: 84179&quot;]Math is your friend. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie101" alt=":woot:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>A quick google search found that the World Gold Council (a marketing development arm of the gold industry) estimates that there have been over 190,040 tonnes of gold mined in human history.&nbsp; They go on to say that this would form a cube 21.4 meters per side.&nbsp; That equals 9800 cubic meters of gold.</p><p><br /></p><p>Wikipedia lists the volume of an Olympic swimming pool at 2500 cubic meters.</p><p><br /></p><p>Therefore, assuming these values are accurate, all the gold ever mined would fill approx. 3.9 Olympic pools.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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