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USGS wants two cubes of silver gold
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thought they might be sized to help illustrate relative density as well, but the gold cube would need to be twice as massive to equal mass of silver cube - interesting bit of history - thanks for posting
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Not sure what the rational would have been.
the silver cube would be 0.78 oz t
the gold cube would be 0.03 oz t
??
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Perhaps illustrating relative value. The mass of silver in the one cube is about 20x the mass of gold in the other.
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Weird request.... Well, without knowing the rationale behind it, it sounds weird. Might have had good logic behind it. Cheers, RickO
A 'statistical column'
They were promoting the "South"
I suspect they were arranging 'scale' cubes of the different mining products to show the relative quantities of product produced.
Sort of like a bar graph.
Just a thought.
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That is about the weight of silver in a dollar at the time. The gold is a bit light for a dollar though.
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Good stuff! I see you noticed a batch of 1895 correspondence just "dropped" on NNP.
I agree that the dimensions are such that they show comparative mining production and have nothing to do with value or density.
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