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I heard on NPR last year that the total amount of all the gold ever mined would fill two Olympic Swimming Pools. But I bet this answer will be much harder to find for diamonds. Diamonds are most likely not as rare as they are purported to be. They are used industrially on a much wider scale than industrial uses of gold.

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