The gold on the earth is 9,000 tons per capita, so why is gold so expensive?

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  1. Many people say that gold is the most valuable collectible. Gold once represented currency in ancient times. It can be said that gold has been the most valuable since ancient times. Even if the renminbi has depreciated, there is no gold. According to scientists, there are at least 60 trillion tons of gold on the earth. If you use the total population of China to calculate, the per capita is about 10,000 tons.

    According to the inference of scientists, there are about 60 trillion tons of gold resources on the earth, with nearly 10,000 tons per capita. It can be seen that there is no shortage of gold on the earth. If these golds are scattered on the ground, then gold will no longer be scarce resources, but everywhere, it cannot be precious. However, British scientists believe that most of the gold and platinum on the planet come from "meteor shower" more than 4 billion years ago. In other words, most of the gold on the earth is a rich gold mine of 4. billion years ago. At that time, meteor rain rewarded most of the surface of the earth with lava state. After the gold melting, it became deeper and deeper in the lava, and gradually entered the heart of the rock. Therefore, it is mainly concentrated there. Thousands of kilometers of underground cannot be mined.
    If gold industry experts estimate that there are still more than 115,000 tons of gold in the world, of which more than 5,600 tons of gold can be mined.
    So for a long time, unless humans have mastered the method of mining gold in the deep strata or can capture small asteroids rich in gold, gold will still be very precious, but these two types of mining will The method of gold is relatively expensive. Therefore, in the foreseeable future, gold will always be scarce resources.

  2. Although neutron stars, supernova explosions, and golden rain come to make the earth a golden earth, rare metals such as iron, nickel, gold, silver, lead, and tungsten are heavy metals with large density and high quality. Most of these valuable metals are gathered in the heart and mantle, only the small corners of the iceberg, and the minimal gold exist in the crust. Due to the high temperature, high pressure, and inexplicable depth of underground, there is no better technology to explorate and develop gold mines and other mineral resources in the deeper underground.

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