China: World’s Largest Gold Deposit Found, Worth Over $80 Billion
This new discovery is estimated to contain around 1,000 metric tons of gold, a hefty contribution to China’s already substantial gold reserves.
Science Alert reports…
A deposit of high-quality gold ore containing around 1,000 metric tons (1,100 US tons) of the precious metal has been discovered in central China, according to Chinese state media.
Valued at approximately 600 billion yuan or US$83 billion, the discovery could be considered the largest and most lucrative reservoir of gold ever uncovered, surpassing the 900 metric tons estimated to lie within the mother of all gold reserves, South Deep mine in South Africa.
The Geological Bureau of Hunan Province announced the detection of 40 gold veins within a depth of 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) in the northeast Hunan county of Pingjiang.
These alone were thought to contain 300 metric tons of gold, with 3D modeling suggesting additional reserves may be found to a depth of 3 kilometers.
MAP: The massive find was made in Pingjiang County, shown here, along with its location in China (Philg88/Wikimedia Commons)
“Many drilled rock cores showed visible gold,” says bureau prospector Chen Rulin.
Core samples suggest every metric ton of ore could contain as much as 138 grams (nearly 5 ounces) of gold – an extraordinary level of quality considering ore excavated from underground mines is considered high grade if it contains more than 8 grams.
China already dominates the world’s gold market with reserves considered to be in excess of 2,000 tons earlier in 2024, its mining industry contributing around 10 percent of the global output.
Announcements of the findings have contributed to a further increase in the already skyrocketing gold price as demands for the resource continue to rise amid global uncertainty.
Just how many bonanzas of the valuable ore remain yet to be discovered around the world is unclear, with experts divided on whether we’ve reached peak gold.
Forged in the furnaces of embracing stars long before Earth was formed, our planet’s glittering veins are a finite resource that take eons to precipitate into an easily mineable form.
Based on these latest findings, we might be far from exhausting economically viable reserves.
Core samples taken around the periphery of the Hunan site hint that the deposit may extend even further than initial predictions, making the reservoir beneath its soil a true dragon’s haul…
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Header featured image (edited) credit: Technicians check rock samples at the Wangu gold mine in Pingjiang county, central China’s Hunan province, this month (Photo credit: Xinhua). Emphasis added by (TLB)
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