highest gold price per ounce
The previous all-time record high gold price in US dollars, reached on 21st January 1980, fixing at $850.00 on that day's p.m. London fix, was finally topped on January 3rd 2008, 11 times in January, and again on February 1st. On 13th March 2008, it broke through the $1,000 per ounce barrier for the first time ever.