“Fort Knox” has become so well known and so closely associated with Gold that it’s become a common part of our everyday language.
Phrases like “guarded like Fort Knox” are used all the time.
And if you were going to store nearly 5,000 metric tons of gold all in one place, you would most certainly need to make sure it was highly secure, naturally.
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Unless….unless the place was empty all along?
We’ll get to that in a minute, but first some statistics:
The United States holds approximately 8,134 metric tons of gold in its reserves. Of this total, about 4,583 metric tons (or 147.3 million ounces) are stored at Fort Knox. This means that Fort Knox holds a significant portion, but not all, of the
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