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Did you know?

  • The density of gold is 19.3 tonnes per cubic meter. That makes it 70% denser than lead.
  • One “cup of gold” weighs almost 5kg (nearly 20 times as much as one cup of water).
  • All the gold ever mined in human history to 2007 is about 150,000 tonnes. This has a volume of 7,770 cubic meters — which is a cube a bit less than 20 meters on each side, or a soccer field covered to a depth of a bit over 1 meter.
  • Gold melts at 1064oC.
  • Gold is the most malleable and ductile of metals. One gram can be beaten into a sheet about 1m square.

The Price of Gold - per oz, pound, gram and ton. 

Gold Equivalent Values - Because many gold miners 'dig' other minerals it's worth understanding the relationship between gold and other commodities.

Convert Grades - %, grams/ton, ppm, ppb.

Abbreviations

Last update: Oct 8th, 2008. Due to crazy volatility at the moment, we're not pretending to keep this page up to date. Rest assured our excel spreadsheet product gets the latest prices at a click, but this page has to be manually updated. These numbers are for guidance only. Given the recent volatility in the precious metals we've opted for rough estimates of the price of gold and silver.

For a summary of the ASX gold sector click here.


The Price of Gold

 .................................  Gold per oz
  $900
  
.  Gold per pound
 		 $14,400   
   Gold per gram  $28.94  
.  Gold per kg
 		 $28,940
.  Gold per ton
 		 $28.94 m

Gold Equivalent Values

Metal Price $US 1oz Eq 1Moz Eq 1 ton Value Gram for Gram
Gold $900.0 oz 1 oz 1 Moz $29 m /ton 1
Silver

$12.00 

oz 75 oz 75
 Moz $386,000 /ton 75
Cobalt $36   11
 kg 11
 kt $79,400 /ton 365
Copper $2.52 lb 162 kg 162 kt $5,600 /ton 5,200
Lead $0.72 lb 567
 kg 567 kt $1,600 /ton 18,200
Nickel $6 lb 67 kg 67 kt $13,500 /ton 2,140
Tin $7.65 lb 53
 kg 53
 kt $16,900 /ton 1,700
Uranium $49 lb 8.3
 kg 8.3 kt $108,000 /ton 270
Zinc $0.67 lb 609
 kg 609
 kt $1,500 /ton 19,585

Latest price update:

Oct 8, 2008

NOTE: All metals prices in our spreadsheets for subscribers are updated with every release of GoldNerds sheet (usually every two weeks). The prices on this page are manually updated far less often, and intended for people looking for a rough idea of what, say, copper is worth, compared to gold. Eg weight for weight, gold is worth roughly 5,000 times as much as copper, and 18,000 times as much as lead.

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Convert Grades
Percent grade
Grams per ton
ppm
ppb
1.00% = 10,000gpt = 10,000ppm = 10,000,000ppb
0.1% = 1,000gpt = 1,000ppm = 1,000,000ppb
0.01% = 100gpt = 100ppm = 100,000ppb
0.001% = 10gpt = 10ppm = 10,000ppb
0.000,1% = 1gpt = 1ppm = 1,000ppb
0.000,01% = 0.1gpt = 0.1ppm = 100ppb

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Abbreviations
Abbr Unit Equivalents
Symbol Element
oz* (Troy) ounce (also 'ozt')
 31.103 g   Au Gold
koz thousand ounces 31.103 kg   Ag Silver
Moz million ounces 31.103 t   Co Cobalt
g gram     Co Copper
t tonne (metric ton) 32,151 oz   Mo Molybdenum
kt kilo tonne     Ni Nickel
lb pound 16 oz*   Pb Lead
  lb (troy)
  troy pound
12 ozt*
  Sn Tin
pa per annum     U Uranium
m million or metre     Zn Zinc
Eq Equivalent (same value)        
gpt grams per tonne g/t  
 
g/t grams per tonne gpt  
 
km kilometre    
 

  * A common ounce is known as an avoir dupois ounce, and is 28.34g. Troy ounces are only used for precious metals, gems and gunpowder, but are 10% larger,  1 Troy oz is 31.1034768 g, and is either referred to as 'oz' or 'ozt'. Since all gold ounces are troy ounces, if 'oz' is used with gold, it refers to the Troy ounce. To make things extra complex, a Troy pound is smaller than a common 'pound', because it only contains 12 troy ounces, not 16 oz, as the avoir dupois 'common' pound does. The troy pound is 373.24 g, while an avoirdupois pound is 453.59g. GoldNerds promises never to refer to either a common ounce, or a troy pound again. Our prices-per-pound are per 'common' pound. No wonder most countries have gone metric.