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No earlier session that month closed above this level.
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This page is a historical record of the gold price in 5 June 2012, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 7 May 2012
Gold closed at $1,615.20 per troy ounce on 5 June 2012, up $3.000 (0.19%) from the previous close of $1,612.20.
This close extended a run of 3 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 14.48% 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 $1,541.70, making this a +4.77% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Gold closed at $1,615.20 per troy ounce on 5 June 2012. That is $3.00 higher than the previous close of $1,612.20, a move of 0.19%.
The gold price rose on 5 June 2012, gaining $3.00 (0.19%) against the previous session's close of $1,612.20.
At $1,615.20 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $51.93 on 5 June 2012. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 5 June 2012 18k gold was worth about $38.95 per gram and 14k about $30.29 per gram, against $51.93 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 56.9 on 5 June 2012, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 56.9 ounces of silver.
A week before 5 June 2012, gold was around $1,548.60 per troy ounce, so the close of $1,615.20 is a gain of 4.3% over the week.
This close was session 3 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 14.48% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2011-08-22.