8 Stunning Images That Show How Much Natural Resources Are Mined Each Year

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The market for precious metals is not as big as you might think.

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One year's worth of mined platinum is only the size of a car. But it's worth about $8 billion.

Visual Capitalist took one year's production of eight commodities, lumped each of them into a three-dimensional cubes, and put them next to landmarks around the world.

They also calculated the value of each cube.