How much does Fort Knox gold bricks weight?

Answer 1

The gold stored in Ft. Knox is in the form of bars. The bars are 7 inches long, 3-1/2 inches wide, and 1-3/4 inches thick, which is slightly larger than a common brick, but they weigh about six times more at nearly 27 pounds.

Each standard bar contains about 400 troy ounces of gold. A troy ounce is just a tiny bit heavier than a regular avoirdupois ounce. How much is one bar worth? At $800 per ounce, each bar would be worth over $345,000. Of course anyone who tracks the price of gold knows that the price per ounce changes up or down almost by the minute. There are two types of bars. A "standard" United States Mint bar is made from almost pure gold. A "coin bar" is made from melted gold coins, which are usually mixed with other metals for strength. Gold is actually rather soft, for a metal, so dropping a bar of gold could dent it, unless your foot broke its fall. But you have almost no chance of ever seeing the gold at Ft. Knox, so your foot is safe.