The US Federal Reserve’s (Fed) Gold Vault
The basement is located beneath the hard rock of Manhattan, as deep as a five-story building. This is an impregnable place and is considered the largest gold reserve in the world with 7,000 tons of gold worth nearly $ 350 billion. It is estimated that the vast majority of gold dug up to date is stored in this vault.
The gold in this vault is owned by 36 Governments, Central Banks and international organizations. The entire gold vault area is divided into 122 storage rooms. The largest of them is the storage room of 110,000 gold bars weighing 12 kg, stacked to form a gold wall 3m high and 5m long.
The doors are designed to be bomb-resistant, weighing 280 tons, 2.7 meters high, and moving along a steel-concrete frame weighing up to 140 tons. Visitors are allowed to visit and are not strictly inspected because the gold is too heavy for anyone to keep in their possession if they have the intention of “sweeping”.
Bank of England Gold Vault
2.8-hectare vault for gold and banknotes in the financial district, central London, under the streets and underground of Threadneedle Street. This is a labyrinth of gold vaults of eight British banks, storing more than 40,000 gold bars with a total value of 141 billion pounds ($200 billion).
An estimated 20% of all government gold in the world is in London, with the Bank of England vault alone containing 5,134 tonnes, including the official reserves of the UK Treasury and most of the gold traded in the UK. London.
The vaults were built in 1930 and used as bomb shelters in 1940 and have been stocked with gold since 1945. Three-foot-long keys are used to open the door next to the electronic door (must say the password to the microphone and machine). computer will recognize the registered voice pattern).
London’s ground floor is easy to sink clay, so the top floor is only 4 layers of racks, the bottom 6 layers of gold racks. Visitors can visit this place thanks to the Virtual Tour application instead of entering the actual tunnel.
The vault of the safes of Swiss banks
Swiss banks are known as the safest places in the world.
Each vault is equipped with a 3-key safe, typical Swiss safes that have been trusted by billionaires around the world for the past 200 years.
The prototype of the first safe was licensed by the office where Albert Einstein worked as a secretary.
Europe’s largest gold store
The gold vault is located 20m deep in the ground, fully automated, dubbed “Fort Knox Switzerland” in the city of Olten, Northwest Switzerland.
The basement was built in 1992 with a cost of 65 million francs, of which 11 million francs for the gold storage. Inside contains tens of thousands of green or gray plastic boxes stacked up to 15m high, inside contain valuable papers, contracts, data files or gold bars … by the robots. perform.
Iran’s Gold Vault
This is considered the most secret, solid and secure gold reserve in the world, even surpassing Fort Knox – a military base and a gold reserve of the United States.
It is protected by solid and meter-thick granite walls, heavily guarded by troops and snipers with strong firepower.
However, no one is sure where this gold hoard is located. Some believe the vault is in the National Treasury or the Central Bank of Iran. But all is still as vague as Iran’s WMD weapon of mass destruction.
The world’s largest gold storage in the US
Fort Knox is the safest, most solid treasure on this planet: Placed in a vault built of granite, hidden behind a 20-ton door, located in a US military base, housed by 30,000 elite soldiers. with armored vehicles, Apache fighter aircraft to protect.
It contains about 50% of the gold of the United States, 45 miles south of Louisville (Kentucky).
Fort Knox was built in early 1936 and completed in December of the same year. Gold is kept in the reserve in the form of bars of mostly pure gold, measuring 18x9x4.5cm, containing approximately 400 ounces of gold. Each bar weighs about 1.2kg, worth about 760,000 USD. The total amount of gold currently stored in the Fort Knox gold reserve is about 147.3 million ounces (equivalent to 4,570 tons of gold) with a total value of more than $280 billion.
Visitors to Fort Knox are only allowed to take pictures outside the gate.
