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Is it really true that world largest deposit of gold was found in China?

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After researching this claim, although there are not many sources that have put anything out there about this, but I did find a couple articles that talk about this. 

My primary source that I found is from the New York Post titled " China claims to have unearthed the largest gold deposit in the world —worth $83B" https://nypost.com/2024/11/30/world-news/china-claims-to-have-unearthed-the-largest-gold-deposit-in-the-world-worth-83b/. The article is from 2024, and they claim that "China is claiming to have unearthed the largest gold deposit in the world — estimated to be worth more than $80 billion". I do notice that when talking about this they use words like "claim" and "alledged" when talking about the findings and mentioned that before this finding, the largest gold deposit was located in South Africa. It seems to me this is still being investiagted by scientists to confirm if this claim is true or not. 

A second source I looked at is from https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a70547429/china-supergiant-gold-mine-world/, "Geologists Might Have Stumbled Upon the Largest Gold Mine in the World". This article is pretty similar to the New York Post one, but it is mentioned that scientists only have a predicted amount of gold that they think is in the deposit, but it has not yet been confirmed. This article also uses language like "may have" and "claims". 

Overall, I think this claim is misleading because it has not been confirmed that it is the largest gold deposit in the world, they are still investigating. 

Exaggerated/ Misleading
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After fact-checking this, it turns out to be true. When you search, this is only one of the sources that come up. All of the other sources, though, confirm the same thing: that China found the biggest deposit of gold. Some other sources include Science Alert, Live Science, and EuroNews. All of these sources confirm that over 80 billion dollars of gold were found in China. Obviously, other news outlets reported on the same, but these were the most reputable!

https://www.sciencealert.com/worlds-largest-gold-deposit-found-worth-over-us80-billion

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/supergiant-gold-deposit-discovered-in-china-is-one-of-the-largest-on-earth-and-is-worth-more-than-usd80-billion

https://www.euronews.com/business/2025/11/14/china-reports-largest-gold-discovery-in-more-than-seven-decades
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