Many metal prices, especially for those of precious metals, have boomed during 2025. In August, Visual Capitalist's Bruno Venditti and Sam Parker made a snapshot of how much metal you could buy with $10,000. Here's the chart they created:
The relative scales of each metal and material shown are linked to the weight that $10,000 would have bought on 22 August 2025. We were curious though to find out the physical size of the metal that would be bought, so we looked up their densities to calculate how big each side a cube of $10,000 worth of each would actually be. At least, with the exception of the rare earth praseodymium-neodymium oxide, for which density data isn't easily obtainable. Here our our results:
- Gold: 1.69 cm
- Platinum: 2.20 cm
- Palladium: 2.85 cm
- Silver: 9.13 cm
- Uranium: 14.81 cm
- Cobalt: 32.35 cm
- Nickel: 42.14 cm
- Lithium (LCE): 73.51 cm
- Copper: 48.45 cm
- Zinc: 79.36 cm
- Aluminum: 112.21 cm
The sizes range from a tiny gold cube where each side is 1.69 cm (or about 2/3 of an inch) long up to a large aluminum cube where each side is 1.12 meters (or a little over 44.2 inches) long.
The prices on which the chart is based apply for 22 August 2025 and have changed quite a bit for some of the metals. For example, the spot price of gold was $3,372.39 per ounce, about 10% less than it is at this writing. $10,000 worth of gold today would be smaller.
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