Highest so far that year
At the time, no session earlier in the year had closed higher.
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This page is a historical record of the gold price in 6 June 2017, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 4 November 2016
Gold closed at $1,294.40 per troy ounce on 6 June 2017, up $15.10 (1.18%) from the previous close of $1,279.30.
Notable session: highest close of the month.
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.
At the time, no session earlier in the year had closed higher.
This close sat 31.47% 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 $1,244.60, making this a +4.00% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Gold closed at $1,294.40 per troy ounce on 6 June 2017. That is $15.10 higher than the previous close of $1,279.30, a move of 1.18%.
The gold price rose on 6 June 2017, gaining $15.10 (1.18%) against the previous session's close of $1,279.30.
At $1,294.40 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $41.62 on 6 June 2017. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 6 June 2017 18k gold was worth about $31.21 per gram and 14k about $24.28 per gram, against $41.62 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 73.2 on 6 June 2017, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 73.2 ounces of silver.
A week before 6 June 2017, gold was around $1,262.10 per troy ounce, so the close of $1,294.40 is a gain of 2.6% over the week.
A month before 6 June 2017, gold was around $1,224.80 per troy ounce, so the close of $1,294.40 is a gain of 5.7% over the month.
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 31.47% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2011-08-22.
The most recent higher close was about 7 months earlier — 144 trading sessions before this one.