8 Stunning Images That Show How Much Natural Resources Are Mined Each Year
Sep 26, 2014, 02:19 IST
Visual CapitalistThe market for precious metals is not as big as you might think.
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One year's worth of mined platinum is only the size of a car. But it's worth about $8 billion.
Visual Capitalist took one year's production of eight commodities, lumped each of them into a three-dimensional cubes, and put them next to landmarks around the world.
They also calculated the value of each cube.