There is a treasure 25 times bigger than America’s economy hidden in the ocean, if found, the world can be filled with gold

Due to the Israel-Iran war, the price of gold jumped sharply on Friday and reached close to an all-time high. Whenever the world faces a calamity, the shine of gold increases. The reason for this is that people consider gold a safe way of investment. Governments also keep as much gold as possible in their treasury. The world’s largest gold reserve is with the US. Central banks of countries like India, China, Turkey and Poland have also recently increased the amount of gold in their reserves. One reason for this is to reduce dependence on the dollar.

The shine of gold has attracted man in every era. Gold has been used as jewelry and a means of transaction since ancient times. According to an estimate, only 208,874 tons of gold has been mined in the world so far. But about 20 million tons of gold is still hidden in the sea. According to a Forbes report, its value could be 771 trillion tons. This is about seven times the total GDP of the world and about 25 times the GDP of the US.

How much gold is there in the sea

According to an estimate, the size of the world economy is 100 trillion dollars and the size of the US GDP is 30.50 trillion dollars. According to the US National Ocean Service, there is one gram of gold in every 100 million metric tons of water in the North Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. The question is, when so much gold is hidden in the sea, why is it not being extracted? This task is not so easy. The reason for this is that extracting gold from the sea is very expensive.

In fact, one liter of sea water contains gold equal to 13 billionth part of a gram. But there is no cheap way available right now to extract gold from sea water and earn profit. However, it is not that there has been no attempt to extract gold from sea water. Many inventors and investors have tried this.

Attempt to extract gold

According to media reports, in the 1890s, Pastor Ford Jernegan planned to extract gold from Long Island Sound through mercury and electricity treatment. For this, he formed Electrolytic Marine Salts Company and even raised 1 million dollars from investors. But soon Jernegan disappeared with all the money. Even after that, many people and organizations tried to separate gold from sea water. But they all failed.