MANILA, March 1 (Reuters) - The Perth Mint's gold sales fell to a three-month low in February when prices raced to their highest in a year.
Spot gold XAU= touched $1,260.60 an ounce on Feb. 11 and has clung to most of its gains since as a shaky global economy kept appetite for safe havens like bullion. The metal was trading at $1,241 on Tuesday.
Sales of gold coins and minted bars dropped to 37,063 ounces last month from 47,759 ounces in January, the mint said in a blog post on its website.
The Perth Mint runs the only gold refinery in Australia, the world's second-biggest gold producer after China.
It said silver sales also slipped to 1.05 million ounces last month from 1.47 million ounces in January.
Period
Gold
Silver
(in ounces)
Feb-16
37,063 1,049,062
Jan-16
47,759 1,473,408
Dec-15
40,096 1,083,460
Nov-15
31,664 1,145,239
Oct-15
66,951 1,751,898
Sep-15
63,791 3,349,557
Aug-15
33,390
707,656
Jul-15
51,088
746,700
Jun-15
31,019
384,586
May-15
21,671
337,511
Apr-15
26,545
472,273
Mar-15
34,260
638,557
Feb-15
31,981
392,114
Jan-15
23,174
585,953