Name: 黃金金庫--視頻週期表。 (Gold Bullion Vault - Periodic Table of Videos)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T10:15:25.000Z
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In some ways, I think it's quite disappointing

seeing these bars because the gold is an exciting element

and it's just sitting here doing nothing.

It's enormously impressive, but it's a bit sad

the dead gold is sitting, waiting for people to remember it.

It could be doing exciting reactions and so on.

We're in the vault, the bullion vault at the Bank of England.

In fact I've never seen so much of any element.

So we're standing here and each shelf here has got a tonne of gold.

which is worth 35 million pounds at today's price.

It's very secure; we've been through a whole series of security checks.

No money's allowed here, to make sure we don't take anything out.

so the camera may be shaking with Brady's excitement.

and to see it all 'round is extraordinary.

One's first reaction is that it can't possibly be real

because normally you don't see such things.

Looks like chocolates in the duty free at the airport

There isn't any smell because metals don't smell

and it's very quiet because of the thick walls

and I was ready to be shivering but it's nice and warm.

But I suppose gold colour also gives you a feeling of warmth

The reason why the bank has got this store

is because not only the Bank of England but other central banks

like to keep some of their money reserves in gold

or the value of gold compared to the value of currencies

And so, every country has a certain proportion of its reserves in gold

and if you look at the statistics, the UK at the moment has about 310 tonnes of gold in its reserves

But there's much more gold here than that

because it belongs to all sorts of people, not just to the Bank of England

This vault is part of a complex of different rooms.

but altogether if you look at the bank's annual report

And that's quite the serious sum of money.

and each block of gold has its own number

but just that number is transferred from the seller's account to the buyer's account

Apparently the oldest bar of gold here has been here since 1916.

That's the First World War, nearly 100 years ago.

But the beauty of gold a chemical element

So it looks just the same now as it did in 1916.

It hasn't got oxide layers on the surface.

It's hasn't started creeping, changing its shape and so on.

So come over here because they've given me two bars that we can look at.

which are both the so-called 'London Good Delivery' bars

which means that their weight is in a certain limit range.

And in fact each of them has its precise weight put on them

in a rather strange unit called a Troy ounce

And this one apparently came from Switzerland and is slightly heavier: 400.075

this one looks a bit like a loaf of bread

Now one of the things you know about gold is that it's really heavy

so I'm going to see whether I can actually lift this with one hand.

So this weighs, each of these in more understandable units, weighs

So for those of you who use imperial units, that's two stone

Each of these is worth about 435 thousand pounds.

You could buy two quite nice houses for a block like this.

Or for a whole shelf of these, which contains a tonne

you could buy 137 of the upmarket Rolls Royce cars

and if you took all the gold that had ever been mined

and put them together like a construction kit to make a big block

you would end up with a block that was 20 metres cubed.

Which would easily fit, for example, under the legs of the Eiffel Tower.

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