This page is a historical record of the gold price in 9 March 2011, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Gold closed at $1,429.30 per troy ounce on 9 March 2011, up $2.400 (0.17%) from the previous close of $1,426.90.
Metal value only, before dealer margins and fabrication.
Twelve months earlier gold traded around $1,122.00, making this a +27.39% move year on year.
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Gold closed at $1,429.30 per troy ounce on 9 March 2011. That is $2.40 higher than the previous close of $1,426.90, a move of 0.17%.
The gold price rose on 9 March 2011, gaining $2.40 (0.17%) against the previous session's close of $1,426.90.
At $1,429.30 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $45.95 on 9 March 2011. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 9 March 2011 18k gold was worth about $34.46 per gram and 14k about $26.81 per gram, against $45.95 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 39.7 on 9 March 2011, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 39.7 ounces of silver.
A year before 9 March 2011, gold was around $1,122.00 per troy ounce. The close of $1,429.30 therefore represents a rise of 27.4% over twelve months.
It closed 0.67% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2011-03-01.