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This page is a historical record of the gold price in 8 March 2019, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Gold closed at $1,297.00 per troy ounce on 8 March 2019, up $13.20 (1.03%) from the previous close of $1,283.80.
Gold moved the opposite way to the session before it. Single-day reversals are common and usually mean little on their own — what matters is whether the next few sessions follow.
No earlier session that month closed above this level.
This close sat 31.33% 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 $1,319.90, making this a -1.73% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Gold closed at $1,297.00 per troy ounce on 8 March 2019. That is $13.20 higher than the previous close of $1,283.80, a move of 1.03%.
The gold price rose on 8 March 2019, gaining $13.20 (1.03%) against the previous session's close of $1,283.80.
At $1,297.00 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $41.70 on 8 March 2019. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 8 March 2019 18k gold was worth about $31.27 per gram and 14k about $24.32 per gram, against $41.70 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 84.9 on 8 March 2019, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 84.9 ounces of silver.
It closed 31.33% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2011-08-22.