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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GeorgeM, post: 1633642, member: 28550&quot;]I&#039;m looking for information about Gold, Silver, Platinum, &amp; Palladium for a class on precious metals. I&#039;ve found several conflicting numbers for the following and was wondering if you have any citations or numbers to fill in the gaps. I wonder if some of the pages I&#039;m finding are merely referencing each other and &quot;playing the game of telephone&quot; with the data. For example: <a href="http://money.howstuffworks.com/question213.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://money.howstuffworks.com/question213.htm" rel="nofollow">http://money.howstuffworks.com/question213.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s what I&#039;ve found so far:</p><p><br /></p><p>Approximate Annual Gold Production:</p><p>50m troy ounces | In &#039;sticky&#039; terms: a 14 ft^3 cube</p><p>Total Gold Production (obviously, estimated):</p><p>10b troy ounces | an 82 ft^3 cube or a monument 1/6 the height of the Washington Monument</p><p><b>&lt;&lt;the total number seems quite high to me (and I wonder if there&#039;s some double counting going on)</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Approximate Annual Silver Production:</p><p>750m troy ounces</p><p>Total Silver Production (obviously, estimated):</p><p>42.7b troy ounces</p><p><br /></p><p>Approximate Annual Platinum Production:</p><p>3.6m troy ounces</p><p>Total Platinum Production (obviously, estimated):</p><p>???</p><p><br /></p><p>Approximate Annual Palladium Production:</p><p>4.2m troy ounces</p><p>Total Palladium Production (obviously, estimated):</p><p>???[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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