About 25 to 26 % of world's gold is held at Federal Reserve Bank of New York.abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5835433&page=1
The US Federal Reserve has about 8000 Tonnes of Gold or about 282192000 ounces. At todays prices that is in the neigborhood of 270 billion dollars. {| |}
50%
The United States Department of the Treasury has the Bullion Depository at Fort Knox, and at the largest gold depository in the world, the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank in New York, which holds about 3% of the gold ever mined.
The Federal Reserve Bank of NY holds the largest store of the world's gold bullion behind a rotating circular vault door six stories below the bank. This service provided to the world is deemed the safest place for the gold and provides the ease of exchanging the gold from country to country. The vault is buried in granite.
All 1928 $5 Federal Reserve Notes carried the phrase "Redeemable in Gold", but they weren't gold certificates and in fact no gold certificates with that denomination were printed. In addition, the bill was distributed by the Federal Reserve Bank located in Cleveland; it wasn't produced by a bank called the Bank of Cleveland. Please see the question "What is the value of a 1928 US 5 dollar Federal Reserve Note?" for more information.
158,000 metric ton
probally brass or somthing that looks similar to real gold like fools gold
Because the Federal Reserve Bank hadn't been invented yet.
Federal Reserve New York
25%
Approximately 50% of the world's gold production is used to make jewelry. The demand for gold in jewelry remains a significant driver of the global gold market.
The continent of Africa is home to 12 percent of the world's oil reserves, 40 percent of its gold, and around 85 percent of its chromium and platinum.