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This page is a historical record of the gold price in 12 April 2022, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 11 March 2022
Gold closed at $1,972.10 per troy ounce on 12 April 2022, up $27.80 (1.43%) from the previous close of $1,944.30.
This close extended a run of 4 consecutive sessions of gains. Runs are more informative than any one day inside them: they show direction holding rather than a single session's noise.
No earlier session that month closed above this level.
This close sat 3.87% below the highest gold close recorded up to that date, set on 2020-08-06.
One of the ten highest gold closes of that year, ranking 8 of 250 sessions.
Metal value only, before dealer margins and fabrication.
Twelve months earlier gold traded around $1,731.20, making this a +13.92% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Gold closed at $1,972.10 per troy ounce on 12 April 2022. That is $27.80 higher than the previous close of $1,944.30, a move of 1.43%.
The gold price rose on 12 April 2022, gaining $27.80 (1.43%) against the previous session's close of $1,944.30.
At $1,972.10 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $63.40 on 12 April 2022. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 12 April 2022 18k gold was worth about $47.55 per gram and 14k about $36.99 per gram, against $63.40 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 76.7 on 12 April 2022, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 76.7 ounces of silver.
A week before 12 April 2022, gold was around $1,922.90 per troy ounce, so the close of $1,972.10 is a gain of 2.6% over the week.
A year before 12 April 2022, gold was around $1,731.20 per troy ounce. The close of $1,972.10 therefore represents a rise of 13.9% over twelve months.
This close was session 4 of a consecutive run of gains. A run is counted by closes, so an intraday reversal that still closed in the same direction does not break it.
It closed 3.87% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2020-08-06.