bagginsbill opened this issue on Jun 29, 2011 · 184 posts
Keith posted Mon, 04 July 2011 at 10:21 AM
The image on the left is a brick poured at a mine roughly 45 minutes before this photo was taken (back in 2002). It's about 960 troy ounces (30 kilos, about 66 lbs), about 88% gold (the rest silver, copper and few other impurities). The image on the right is from a different mine (taken last year) where the gold, of slightly less purity, was poured into a mold (for the inukshuk) and polished up a bit to make it more shiny. The gold bar laying on its side underneath it was what would have been normally poured, but that was also shined up a bit to make it look prettier.
And yes, that inukshuk is 49.8 kg (110 lb) of raw gold.