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Gold has long been viewed as a safe-haven asset, but in recent months, it’s been in the spotlight for a different reason: reaching record highs.
Gold touched an all-time high of USD $3,266 per ounce (AUD $5,143) this month, the culmination of five years of record growth. It's important for Australian investors, producers, and policymakers to understand what's driving the trend and the implications more than ever before.
The World Gold Council, in partnership with Pioneer Productions, has recently released an eye-opening documentary, "Gold: A Journey with Idris Elba," which delves into the intricate and often enigmatic relationship humans have with gold.
Global leader in precious metals The Perth Mint has joined with leading-edge technology specialists Security Matters Ltd to develop the world’s first mine to market ethical gold supply chain assurance solution.
Titled trueGold, the initiative will lead the commercialisation of a worldwide integrity application for gold mining companies, refiners, vault operators, depositories, mints, wholesalers and retailers.
Australia’s gold exports are forecast to hit a record high of AUD $25 billion in 2019-20 according to the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science’s September edition of Resources and Energy Quarterly (REQ).
The September REQ shows Australia remains the world’s second largest producer of gold, with production increasing by 6.3% in FY 2018–19 to 321 tonnes, equating to 9% of the world’s total supply in 2018.
Should central banks hold gold?
From the late 1980s into the new millennium the answer appeared to be in the negative, with global central bank reserves declining from around 36,000 tonnes to under 30,000 tonnes.
In our last article on gold supply, we mentioned that one needs to be careful applying conventional commodity supply/demand analysis to gold.
Unlike many commodities, the share of industrial uses is very small, less than 10%. Most gold demand is either jewellery or investment of one sort or another.
