Typical no-clue journalist.
It is just under 6,000 bars of gold worth a bit under $700M. And it would fit on one or two semis.
However 25 cubic feet is only 3 feet on a side and 3 feet high.
Unless they meant to say 25 feet cubed.
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But Gold is not transported in Semis.
It is transported in armored cars, and usually not more than 50 bars to the car.
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What is the weight? Recall that it would have to travel over bridges and other load restricted areas.
And one $700,000,000 truck is a bigger target than 4 $200,000,000 trucks.
Weight of that much gold?
Standard bars of gold for trading weigh in at 400 troy oz’s.....if it is costing Texas 108 dollars a bar to house the gold or 605 thousand a year...then they have 5601.85 bars....(assuming 99.5 per cent purity) Texas gold’s worth is over 2 billion dollars at current valuation per ounce. I could see why Texas would want their gold back...plus why should the state want to pay a NY firm 605 thousand of Texas’ money that could be put to use in Texas’ economy?