How much silver is mined in a year?
26,000 tAbout 28,700 US tons · Colossal
About 26,000 tonnes a year.
That's about 310,000 big red kangaroos (85 kg each).
🥈26,000 t
🏊an Olympic pool
By weight: a year of silver is about 10× heavier than an Olympic pool.
Things about the same weight
- How much did the Chelyabinsk meteor weigh?12,000 t
- How much space junk is orbiting Earth?13,000 t
- How much does Bagger 288 weigh?13,500 t
- How much does the CMS detector at CERN weigh?14,000 t
- How much does the Leaning Tower of Pisa weigh?14,500 t
- How much does an Ohio-class submarine weigh?18,750 t
- How much did the Titanic weigh?52,310 t
- How much steel is in the Sydney Harbour Bridge?52,800 t
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