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| TABLE 1 | |||||||||||||||
| SALIENT GOLD STATISTICS1 | |||||||||||||||
| 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | |||||||||||
| United States: | |||||||||||||||
| Production: | |||||||||||||||
| Mine: | |||||||||||||||
| Quantity | kilograms | 234,000 | 235,000 | 230,000 | 210,000 | 214,000 | |||||||||
| Value- | thousands | $11,800,000 | $12,600,000 | $10,400,000 | $8,570,000 | $8,000,000 | |||||||||
| Gold recovered by cyanidation, leached in open | |||||||||||||||
| heaps or dumps2 | kilograms | 201,000 | 206,000 | 196,000 | 173,000 | r | 187,000 | ||||||||
| Refinery: | |||||||||||||||
| Concentrates and dore | do. | 220,000 | 218,000 | r | 223,000 | 253,000 | r | 248,000 | |||||||
| Recycled materials (new and old scrap) | do. | 263,000 | 215,000 | 210,000 | 135,000 | r | 124,000 | ||||||||
| Exports, refined bullion | do. | 430,000 | r | 375,000 | r | 487,000 | r | 387,000 | r | 366,000 | |||||
| Imports for consumption, refined bullion | do. | 156,000 | 107,000 | 98,700 | r | 121,000 | 89,800 | ||||||||
| Net deliveries from foreign stocks in the Federal Reserve- | |||||||||||||||
| Bank of New York | do. | 3,670 | -- | -5,160 | -177,000 | r | -129,000 | ||||||||
| Stocks, December 31: | |||||||||||||||
| Industry3 | do. | 6,470 | 4,070 | 5,940 | 7,540 | r | 7,330 | ||||||||
| Gold exchange traded funds holdings4 | do. | 2,410,000 | 2,690,000 | 1,810,000 | 1,650,000 | r | 1,530,000 | ||||||||
| COMEX inventories | do. | 353,000 | 344,000 | 243,000 | 325,000 | 198,000 | |||||||||
| U.S. Department of the Treasury- | do. | 8,140,000 | 8,140,000 | 8,140,000 | 8,140,000 | 8,140,000 | |||||||||
| Consumption: | |||||||||||||||
| American Buffalo gold bullion coin5 | do. | 5,430 | 2,460 | 7,430 | 5,520 | r | 6,860 | ||||||||
| American Eagle gold bullion coin5 | do. | 31,100 | 23,400 | 24,100 | 16,300 | r | 24,900 | ||||||||
| Jewelry industry and the arts | do. | 168,000 | 147,000 | 160,000 | 152,000 | r | 164,000 | ||||||||
| Price, average6 | dollars per troy ounce | 1,572.48 | 1,672.75 | 1,414.80 | 1,269.45 | 1,163.33 | |||||||||
| Employment, mine and mill only7 | 11,100 | 12,700 | 12,500 | r | 12,000 | r | 11,900 | ||||||||
| World: | |||||||||||||||
| Production, mine | kilograms | 2,680,000 | r | 2,750,000 | 2,920,000 | 3,020,000 | r | 3,100,000 | e | ||||||
| Official bullion reserves8 | do. | 31,100,000 | 31,700,000 | 31,900,000 | 31,400,000 | 32,800,000 | |||||||||
| eEstimated. rRevised. do. Ditto. -- Zero. | |||||||||||||||
| 1Data are rounded to no more than three significant digits, except prices.- | |||||||||||||||
| 2May include tailings, waste-ore dumps, and previously mined ore at some inactive mines. | |||||||||||||||
| 3Unfabricated refined gold held by refiners, fabricators, dealers, and the U.S. Department of Defense. | |||||||||||||||
| 4Data from GFMS, Thomson Reuters. | |||||||||||||||
| 5Data from the U.S. Mint. | |||||||||||||||
| 6Annual average daily Engelhard quotation. | |||||||||||||||
| 7Data from the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration. | |||||||||||||||
| 8Held by central banks, governments, and international monetary organizations. Data from the International Monetary Fund. | |||||||||||||||
Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program
See also: Mineral commodity prices
