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The US Federal Reserve has about 8000 Tonnes of Gold or about 282192000 ounces. At todays prices that is in the neigborhood of 270 billion dollars.

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_gold_does_the_federal_reserve#ixzz1mha40aPX

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TheFakeSunRa said:

I know how to measure volume. It's an incredibly small amount compared to how many people there are to covet it.

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pmb said:

TheFakeSunRa said:

I know how to measure volume. It's an incredibly small amount compared to how many people there are to covet it.

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It's not cheap for a reason, there isn't a ton of it just floating around.

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that's because it's really dense and doesnt float 

but yes, there's literally tons of it just laying around

WakeboardrB said:

An olympic sized swimming pool is pretty fucking huge. I mean really fucking huge.

According to Wiki, an average depth Olympic sized pool could hold over 660,000 gallons of water. That's a VERY conservative estimate, since there is no true definition of an Olympic sized pool since depth varies. They only classify it by length.

Water weighs about 8.35 pounds. So given the average olympic pool, the water would weigh 5,511,000 pounds.

Gold weighs almost 20 times more than water, so for the sake of making it simple, I'll just apply it to the standard olympic pool.

110,220,000 pounds x 2.

220,440,000 pounds. And that's the bare minimum. It could be MUCH more.

And we still haven't scratched the surface as far as how much gold the earth holds.

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