Commodity Trends

Metal Price Trends

Compare historical price trends for common precious, industrial, and minor metals including gold, silver, copper, aluminum, zinc, nickel, tungsten, and titanium. The official annual series now runs through 2025, and the main chart indexes the selected window to 100 at the starting year for easier comparison.

Metals
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Selected metals
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Window
30 years
Strongest trend in window
Gold
+748.8%
Latest covered year
2,025

Indexed historical trend

Start year = 100

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03006009001995200520152025Index
Selected year
2025
Gold
Precious metal · USD / troy oz
$3,300.00
2025
Window change
+748.8%
Window peak
$3,300.00
2025
Coverage
19002025
Silver
Precious metal · USD / troy oz
$38.00
2025
Window change
+632.2%
Window peak
$38.00
2025
Coverage
19002025
Copper
Industrial metal · USD / kg
$10.80
2025
Window change
+350.0%
Window peak
$10.80
2025
Coverage
19002025
Aluminum
Industrial metal · USD / kg
$3.97
2025
Window change
+152.9%
Window peak
$3.97
2025
Coverage
19002025
Zinc
Industrial metal · USD / kg
$3.28
2025
Window change
+190.3%
Window peak
$4.19
2022
Coverage
19002025
Nickel
Industrial metal · USD / kg
$15.00
2025
Window change
+100.0%
Window peak
$37.20
2007
Coverage
19002025
Tungsten
Minor metal · USD / kg
$47.92
2025
Window change
+360.8%
Window peak
$56.70
2012
Coverage
19002025
Titanium
Minor metal · USD / kg
$12.00
2025
Window change
+24.2%
Window peak
$20.60
2006
Coverage
19412025
How to read this page
  1. [1]This page is built for long-run trend reading rather than spot-price monitoring because it uses official annual USGS prices.
  2. [2]The long history comes from Data Series 140, with the latest years appended from USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 based on each metal's available chapter coverage.
  3. [3]Gold and silver are shown in USD per troy ounce, while all other tracked metals are shown in USD per kilogram. Recent tungsten chapter prices are converted with the official USGS metric-ton-unit relationship so the series stays comparable.
Source: USGS Data Series 140 historical series, extended for the latest years with Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026Chart mode: Indexed comparison with start year = 100Latest coverage: 2,025