Best of Gold
The 10 Best Gold Datasets in 2026
10 Gold picks, ranked on what's inside: field richness, coverage depth, fit for the job. USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries - Gold leads.
- 10ranked picks
- 5documented fields on stage
- 0/6with mapped coverage
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Every dataset here carries a 0–10 score built on documented fields, and the ranking follows those scores. When records tie, coverage breaks it: more geography, deeper history, finer granularity. Cadence isn't a scoring axis — it's a delivery setting. Delivered daily, weekly, or hourly, your call.
- 1 World Bank Commodity Markets
- 2 9/10
Why it ranks second: no other record packs so many verifiable federal figures into so few columns, which makes it the citation everyone else reconciles against.
- 3 SPDR Gold Shares Fund Data
- 4 9/10
- 5 9/10Diversified metals mining
SEC EDGAR - Mining Company Filings
Why it ranks fifth: it ties every miner number back to the document that disclosed it, which is what diligence and auditable models both require.
- 6 9/10Precious metals minerals
World Gold Council GoldHub data hub
Why it ranks sixth: it is the only record splitting demand by sector and country at quarterly grain, though a five-field shared spine keeps most workbooks deliberately shallow.
- 7 9/10
- 8 Eurostat Comext - Gold HS 7108
- 9 8/10Precious metals minerals
LBMA Precious Metals Prices
- 10 Yahoo Finance gold futures
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Frequently asked questions
What is the single best gold dataset?
The World Bank Commodity Markets (Pink Sheet), on our scoring. Quality 10/10, the slice's only perfect grade: monthly gold from January 1960 - 805 observations and counting - beside roughly 70 sibling commodities in one wide table, with a constant-2010 real-dollar twin column that makes the whole span comparable without your own deflation work.
Which dataset tracks how much gold the GLD trust actually holds?
SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) Fund Data, two grains deep. The daily series carries ounces and tonnes in trust beside NAV and premium/discount - 5,676 sessions since 18 November 2004 - and the bar lists enumerate individual allocated bars by refiner, weight, assay and vault; the HSBC list alone itemises 5,944 bars totalling roughly 2.41 million fine ounces.
Can you see traders' positioning in gold futures?
Yes - the CFTC Commitments of Traders (COT) Reports break futures and options open interest into trader categories every reporting week, with the Legacy format running since 15 January 1986 and the Disaggregated and Traders-in-Financial-Futures views since June 2006 across roughly 100-plus contract markets. Managed-money length against commercials is the standard sentiment input for metals desks.
Where does gold mine production by country come from?
USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries - Gold tabulates the United States plus 17 leading producers each year: world output of 3,250 tonnes in 2023 rising to an estimated 3,300 for 2024, against roughly 64,000 tonnes of reserves, led by China at 380 tonnes. Geoscience Australia extends the picture nationally with 12,955 tonnes of demonstrated resources at end-2024 against 284 tonnes mined.