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Encyclopedia > World Gold Council

The World Gold Council, formed in 1987, is an industry association of the world's leading gold mining companies. It aims to stimulate demand for gold from industry, consumers, and investors. 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Gold mining consists of the processes and techniques employed in the removal of gold from the ground. ... General Name, Symbol, Number gold, Au, 79 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 6, d Appearance metallic yellow Atomic mass 196. ...


The Council's Chief Executive Officer is James E Burton, former CEO of the California Public Employees' Retirement System. Its Chairman is Pierre Lassonde, the President of Newmont Mining Corporation. The California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) provides pension fund and other retirement services for 1. ... Newmont Mining Corporation (NYSE: NEM), based in Denver, Colorado, USA, is the worlds largest producer of gold, with active mines in Canada, Bolivia, Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand, Turkey, and Uzbekistan. ...


See also

Gold exchange-traded funds (or GETFs) are special types of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) tracking the price of gold. ... This article discusses buying gold as an investment. ...

External links

  • WGC Official site

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World Gold Council - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (103 words)
The World Gold Council, formed in 1987, is an industry association of the world's leading gold mining companies.
It aims to stimulate demand for gold from industry, consumers, and investors.
The Council's Chief Executive Officer is James E Burton, former CEO of the California Public Employees' Retirement System.
GOLD WATCH (0 words)
World Gold Council demand surveys have indicated a large rebound in end user demand for gold worldwide as well as a sharp decline in liquidations of gold by parties in financial distress in emerging Asia (which are classified as scrap by Gold Fields Mineral Services).
We have turned to the World Gold Council's estimates of gold demand for 1999 to argue that gold demand has rebounded strongly from the Asian crisis lows of 1998 and that there was a large gold market deficit in the fourth quarter of last year.
Gold demand for jewelry, bar and official coin was estimated at 274 tonnes in 1999 for the four countries the WGC surveyed.
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