Total World Supply of Gold

		Mr. Turk originally compiled the data for the Aboveground and Total Monetary Gold Stock in 1994 for a monograph he wrote entitled Do Central Banks Control the Gold Market? The sources of information to compile the historical data are: - A History of Gold and Money 1450-1920 by Pierre Vilar (London: NLB, 1976) - A History of the Precious Metals from the Earliest Times to the Present by Alexander Del Mar (London: George Bell and Sons, 1880) - An Historical Inquiry Into the Production and Consumption of the Precious Metals by William Jacob (London: John Murray, 1831). Current data was obtained from the annual surveys of the Gold Fields Mineral Services Ltd. in London. South African production was obtained from: - Gold and South African Gold Mines (Johannesburg: International Gold Corporation, 1985) Production in the former Soviet Union and CIS was obtained from: - The Structure and Operation of the World Gold Market (Washington D.C.: International Monetary Fund, Occasional Paper No. 105, September 1993) Finally, the analysis of Gold's usage by sector is based upon various assumptions detailed in the original 1994 monograph.

Aboveground Gold Stock - Pie Chart

Aboveground Gold Stock - Graph

Total Monetary Gold Stock - Graph

Mr. Turk originally compiled the data for the Aboveground and Total Monetary Gold Stock in 1994 for a monograph he wrote entitled Do Central Banks Control the Gold Market? The sources of information to compile the historical data are:

- A History of Gold and Money 1450-1920 by Pierre Vilar (London: NLB, 1976)

- A History of the Precious Metals from the Earliest Times to the Present by Alexander Del Mar (London: George Bell and Sons, 1880)

- An Historical Inquiry Into the Production and Consumption of the Precious Metals by William Jacob (London: John Murray, 1831).

Current data was obtained from the annual surveys of the Gold Fields Mineral Services Ltd. in London. South African production was obtained from:

- Gold and South African Gold Mines (Johannesburg: International Gold Corporation, 1985)

Production in the former Soviet Union and CIS was obtained from:

- The Structure and Operation of the World Gold Market (Washington D.C.: International Monetary Fund, Occasional Paper No. 105, September 1993)

Finally, the analysis of Gold's usage by sector is based upon various assumptions detailed in the original 1994 monograph.