A visit to the world's largest gold market, in Dubai

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2017/11/03/a-visit-to-the-worlds-larges.html

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Dubai garage sales are shiny.

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Always love the factoid that all of the gold ever mined ~187,000 tons, would build a cube 21 meters on a side.

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Or 21 blocks in Minecraft.

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9261 blocks wouldn’t be fun to place though.

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But how big is their slave market?

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While in Toronto…

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“Hello, Steven Soderbergh? Got your ‘Ocean’s 14’ script right here…”

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So these Dubai guys have just a little over 0.005% of all the gold ever mined in the history of our planet? Lame!

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