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No because it's much more rare. All the gold mined in the history of the world could fit into one moderately sized warehouse.

190,000 tons of gold mined in the history of the world vs. 700,000,000 tons of copper.




Well, we've mined 320,000 tons of bismuth so that's probably a better comparison than copper. This is all just to get a wide ballpark estimate.




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