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This page is a historical record of the gold price in 4 April 2006, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Gold closed at $586.00 per troy ounce on 4 April 2006, down $3.400 (0.58%) from the previous close of $589.40.
Notable session: lowest close of the month.
Metal value only, before dealer margins and fabrication.
Twelve months earlier gold traded around $423.90, making this a +38.24% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Gold closed at $586.00 per troy ounce on 4 April 2006. That is $3.40 lower than the previous close of $589.40, a move of -0.58%.
The gold price fell on 4 April 2006, losing $3.40 (0.58%) against the previous session's close of $589.40.
At $586.00 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $18.84 on 4 April 2006. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 4 April 2006 18k gold was worth about $14.13 per gram and 14k about $10.99 per gram, against $18.84 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 50.1 on 4 April 2006, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 50.1 ounces of silver.
A week before 4 April 2006, gold was around $566.60 per troy ounce, so the close of $586.00 is a gain of 3.4% over the week.
A year before 4 April 2006, gold was around $423.90 per troy ounce. The close of $586.00 therefore represents a rise of 38.2% over twelve months.
It closed 0.58% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2006-04-03.