April 3 (Reuters) - The Perth Mint's sales of gold products
rose about 13 percent in March from a month earlier, while
month-on-month silver sales fell for second month in a row, the
mint said in a blog post on its website on Tuesday.
Sales of gold coins and minted bars rose to 29,883 ounces in
March from 26,473 ounces in February, the mint said.
Gold sales climbed about 34 percent in March compared with
the same month last year.
Silver sales in March fell 1.7 percent month-on-month to
975,921 ounces, but surged about 36 percent compared with the
same time last year.
The Perth Mint refines more than 90 percent of the newly
mined gold in Australia, the world's second-largest gold
producer after China.
Spot gold prices was up about 0.5 percent in March.
Period Gold (oz) Silver (oz)
(year-month)
2018-March 29,883 975,921
2018-Feb 26,473 992,954
2018-Jan 37,174 1,067,361
2017-Dec 27,009 874,437
2017-Nov 23,901 544,436
2017-Oct 44,618 999,425
2017-Sept 46,415 697,849
2017-Aug 23,130 392,091
2017-July 23,675 1,167,963
2017-June 19,259 1,215,071
2017-May 29,679 826,656
2017-April 10,490 468,977
2017-March 22,232 716,283
2017-Feb 25,257 502,353
2017-Jan 72,745 1,230,867
2016-Dec 63,420 430,009
2016-Nov 54,747 984,622
2016-Oct 79,048 1,084,213
2016-Sept 58,811 1,031,858
2016-Aug 14,684 376,461
2016-July 16,870 693,447
2016-June 31,368 1,220,817
2016-May 21,035 974,865
2016-April 47,542 1,161,766
2016-March 47,948 1,756,238
2016-Feb 37,063 1,049,062
2016-Jan 47,759 1,473,408
(Reporting by Eileen Soreng in Bengaluru; Editing by Amrutha
Gayathri)
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