Where can I download historical gold prices back to 1970 for free?

BullionStar publishes a machine-readable JSON MAX series spanning 1970-01-01 to present, roughly 687 points per metal-currency pair. The Perth Mint offers daily CSV archives from 1968 with gold rows populated from 2 January 1975, and World Gold Council Goldhub carries price averages in many currencies from 1978 onward.

Which free source reaches furthest past 1970?

The Perth Mint's archive files are dated from 1968, two years earlier than the 1970 starting point most searchers ask for, though its gold rows only populate from 2 January 1975. Trading Economics carries daily gold observations from 3 January 1968 in its catalog coverage, but treats bulk extraction as subscription territory under its terms.

Is LBMA benchmark history part of the free 1970-onward pile?

No. LBMA states that obtaining, using or redistributing its benchmark data requires an ICE Benchmark Administration licence, even for the historical tables held behind MyLBMA sign-in. The live chart widget is unrestricted viewing, but any pricing, valuation or product use needs an IBA licence purchased via ICE.

What licence applies to the free long-run gold files?

None of the three pre-1978 sources grants an open licence. BullionStar publishes no open-data licence beyond screenshot attribution rules, The Perth Mint publishes prices free of charge for information under site copyright, and Goldhub is World Gold Council copyright with embedded ICE Data Services market data. Only BullionVault, whose bars start in 2005, declares commercial delivery terms 4.0.

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The Perth Mint bullion prices and data files are dated 1968, matching Trading Economics' start year, so the pair brackets the practical floor of freely downloadable gold pricing. Everything earlier than 1968 in this slice lives outside the price feeds entirely: BGS MineralsUK's World Mineral Statistics archive runs production records from 1970 via its OGCAPI-Features API (1913 onward in PDFs), which gives you tonnage context rather than quotes.

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