The financial value of the Olympic medals is “shocking” .. Bronze is 5 dollars
CNN revealed the material value of the medals of the Olympic Games currently held in Tokyo, far from their true moral value, noting that the diameter of the gold, silver and bronze medals is 85 mm, and their thickness ranges from 7.7 mm to 12.1 mm.
The network said that the gold medal is made of pure silver plated with gold, with about six grams of gold out of a total weight of 556 grams, and its value is estimated at 800 dollars, while the silver medal is made of pure silver and weighs 550 grams and financially equals 450 dollars, while the bronze medal weighs 450 It is made of 95 percent copper and 5 percent zinc, and it equals five dollars, according to market prices of silver, bronze and gold plating.
Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper had published a report on the Olympic medals, and stated that earlier this month, a silver medal from the 1896 Athens Olympics was sold for $180,000 at an auction in Boston, USA, and the gold medal for Cuban bowler Loris Bobo from the London 2012 Olympics was awarded $73,200, and the gold medal for Ivan Pedroso in the long jump from the 2000 Sydney Olympics for $71,335.
It is noteworthy that the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee stated that the medals were manufactured from “electronic waste and what it contains of batteries, wires and others”, as it has become the fastest-growing stream among household waste in the world, and electronic waste, despite its toxicity, is considered a neglected mine that hides gold and other precious metals, waiting for those who discover it.
She explained that about 6.21 million old mobile phones were donated by Japanese electronics stores, schools and the general public who put their goods in yellow donation boxes in post offices and on street corners, and after recycling them, the organizers got tens of kilograms of gold, hundreds of kilograms of silver and thousands of kilograms of gold. Bronze.
The 4,000 gold, silver and bronze medals at the Tokyo Games are made entirely of recycled metals extracted from nearly 79,000 tons of used consumer electronics including laptops, game consoles and digital cameras.
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