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Show Oceans Contain Gold, Silver, Iron and Many Other Precious Elements There is enough gold in the sea to "ive every man. woman and child in the world" about $14,000 worth, with gold at S20 an ounce, if It were all removed and distributed equally. Such is the conclusion which might be drawn from the most recent estimates of the composition of sea water contained con-tained in the lfr.3 physk-al tables of the Smithsonian institution, says Popular Pop-ular Mechanics Magazine. Each kilogram of sen water contains about forty-five millioiiths of one milligram mil-ligram of gold. The total ocean sur face area Is estimated at :"i . r.f M . H X) square kilometers and the average depth at three kilometers. The seas therefore contain about I.OOO.OIXI.OOO cubic kilometers of water with an estimated es-timated weight of one spxtillion kilo gramsa number represented by the figure one. followed by twenty one ciphers. This would mean about l.riOO.nOO.non.OOO ounces of gold, or TOO ounces for eacli human being. It Is estimated the oceans contain silver 1.000 time? greater than the amount of gold. Also there are vast stores of Iron, mnnjanese, phusporus. Iodine, copper, barium, arsenic and zinc all present In sea water In minute mi-nute amounts along with such vastly more abundant elements as chlorine, sodium, magnesium, calcium and potassium. po-tassium. It has been found that the cost of extracting the precious elements from sea water Is vastly out of proportion to the returns. While It has been assumed as-sumed that the amounts of the various va-rious elements found In the surface water also would be found throughout through-out the sea. this is by no means certain, cer-tain, as there is reason to believe the amount decreases with depth. |
