The United States has the largest gold reserves of any country in the world with 8.133 tonnes, followed by Germany which has 3.4 tonnes, the IMF 2.8 tonnes, Italy 2.4 tonnes, France 2.4 tonnes, China 1 ton and Switzerland 1 ton. This vault contains gold belonging to both the Bank of England and private citizens. If you wanted to buy a gold bar, you wouldn’t necessarily have it delivered to your house (even though that would be awesome), you would just have your name marked as the owner within the bank’s vault. I was also interested to learn that if you took all the gold that has ever been mined in human history and stacked it up neatly to form one solid block, you would end up with just a 60 foot cube. That’s small enough to fit in the lobby of some buildings! Want to calculate your weight in gold? Remember the current price of gold is around $1250 per ounce. There are 14.5 troy ounces in a pound, so multiply your weight by 14.5 then multiply that by 1250. A 180 pound person would be worth $3.262 million of gold. Take a Video Tour of the $315 Billion Gold Vaults:
