{"id":208,"date":"2010-02-05T17:47:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T17:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/?p=208"},"modified":"2014-01-28T07:34:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T07:34:15","slug":"goldprice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/goldprice\/","title":{"rendered":"History of the gold price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You have to drill through 250 tons of rock, then pulverize and chemically treat it to get enough gold to cast a single wedding ring. No wonder gold is one of the most expensive &#8211; and most sought-after &#8211; precious metals. Gold is measured in troy ounces (1\/12 of a pound, or 31.1035 grams) which is 1.1 times as heavy as the avoirdupois ounce (1\/16 of a pound, or 28.3495 grams).<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"10\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Year<\/th>\n<th>US$ high<\/th>\n<th>low<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2013<\/td>\n<td>1690.50<\/td>\n<td>1192.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2012<\/td>\n<td>1791.75<\/td>\n<td>1540.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2011<\/td>\n<td>1889.70<\/td>\n<td>1331.50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2010<\/td>\n<td>1421.10<\/td>\n<td>1058.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2009<\/td>\n<td>1056.90<\/td>\n<td>858.69<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2008<\/td>\n<td>971.06<\/td>\n<td>760.86<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2007<\/td>\n<td>808.31<\/td>\n<td>630.35<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2006<\/td>\n<td>676.77<\/td>\n<td>549.43<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2005<\/td>\n<td>509.42<\/td>\n<td>424.08<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2004<\/td>\n<td>442.97<\/td>\n<td>383.95<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2003<\/td>\n<td>407.67<\/td>\n<td>328.21<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2002<\/td>\n<td>333.30<\/td>\n<td>281.76<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2001<\/td>\n<td>283.32<\/td>\n<td>260.75<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2000<\/td>\n<td>300.85<\/td>\n<td>265.99<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1990s<\/td>\n<td>416.54<\/td>\n<td>256.20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1980s<\/td>\n<td>674.58*<\/td>\n<td>299.83<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1970s<\/td>\n<td>463.67<\/td>\n<td>34.95<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1960s<\/td>\n<td>43.46<\/td>\n<td>35.06<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1950s<\/td>\n<td>35.13<\/td>\n<td>34.73<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1800s<\/td>\n<td>20.67<\/td>\n<td>19.39<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>*In January 1980, the gold price hit $850 amid international crisis (the Islamic Revolution in Iran and the Soviet Union invading Afghanistan)<br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openeconomics.net\/\">Open Economics<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kitco.com\/connecting.html\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"[Most Recent Charts from www.kitco.com]\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kitconet.com\/charts\/metals\/gold\/t24_au_en_usoz_4.gif\" width=\"172\" height=\"114\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/gold\/\">All the gold ever mined still exists today<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have to drill through 250 tons of rock, then pulverize and chemically treat it to get enough gold to cast a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[108],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money","tag-gold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}