facts and fun facts about gold

really facts and fun facts about gold - In order to extract South Africa’s yearly output of 500 tons of gold nearly 70 million tons of earth are raised and milled.

- Gold is so pliable that it can be made into sewing thread. An ounce of gold can be stretched over 50 miles.

  - Oceans are the greatest single reservoir of gold at Earth's surface containing approximately eight times the total quantity of gold mined to date

-  In 1933, Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6102 which outlawed U.S. citizens from hoarding gold. Owning gold

- The first recorded gold ever discovered in the United States was was a 17 pound nugget found in Cabarrus

-  More than 90 percent of all gold ever used has been mined since 1848

More fun facts about gold  

- The Mines of South Africa can descend as far as 12000 feet and reach temperatures 130 °F To produce an ounce of gold requires 38 man hours

- The troy ounce of gold comes from the French town of Troyes, which first created a system of weights in the Middle Ages

- During the fourteenth century, drinking molten gold and crushed emeralds was used as a treatment for the bubonic plaque

- The chemical symbol for gold is AU

- Around 1200 B.C., the Egyptians used unshorn sheepskin to mine for gold dust from the sands

- If gold jewelry irritates the skin, it is likely that the gold was mixed with some other metal

-  The nugget is 10 by 25 inches and yielded 2,248 ounces of pure gold. It was found just two inches below the ground surface

what is the world population current live clock statistics and projections

if you ask about what is the world population current live clock statistics and projections first with some data  The world's two most populated countries alone China and India together constitute about 37% of the world's population

United States and Canada, has a population of around 5%

Most populous city

Greater Tokyo Area 35,676,000

Cairo 19,439,541

global population projections Population 2050 The global population is expected to increase by 38%, from 6.9 billion in 2010 to 9.6 billion in 2050. The population of children younger than 15 is projected to increase by only 10%, a consequence of falling birth rates  in 2050. The global population is getting older The number of people 65 and older is projected to triple by mid-century, from 531m in 2010 to 1.5b in 2050

Who will be among the oldest? By 2050, the majority of people in Japan, South Korea and Germany

How big will the U.S. be The U.S. population is projected to grow by 89 million residents from 2010 to 2050. The U.S. is likely to grow faster than European and East Asian countries, but slower than Nigeria, which is expected to replace the U.S. as the world’s third most populous country.