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This page is a historical record of the gold price in 3 August 2015, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Gold closed at $1,089.40 per troy ounce on 3 August 2015, down $5.500 (0.50%) from the previous close of $1,094.90.
No earlier session that month closed above this level.
This close sat 42.32% below the highest gold close recorded up to that date, set on 2011-08-22.
Metal value only, before dealer margins and fabrication.
Twelve months earlier gold traded around $1,285.80, making this a -15.27% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Gold closed at $1,089.40 per troy ounce on 3 August 2015. That is $5.50 lower than the previous close of $1,094.90, a move of -0.50%.
The gold price fell on 3 August 2015, losing $5.50 (0.50%) against the previous session's close of $1,094.90.
At $1,089.40 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $35.03 on 3 August 2015. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 3 August 2015 18k gold was worth about $26.27 per gram and 14k about $20.43 per gram, against $35.03 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 75.0 on 3 August 2015, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 75.0 ounces of silver.
A month before 3 August 2015, gold was around $1,163.00 per troy ounce, so the close of $1,089.40 is a loss of 6.3% over the month.
A year before 3 August 2015, gold was around $1,285.80 per troy ounce. The close of $1,089.40 therefore represents a fall of 15.3% over twelve months.
It closed 42.32% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2011-08-22.