Privately Held Gold
As of October 2009, gold exchange-traded funds held 1,750 tonnes of gold for private and institutional investors.
Gold Holdings Corp. a publicly listed gold company estimates that the amount of in-ground verified gold resources currently controlled by publicly traded gold mining companies is roughly 50,000 tonnes.
| Rank | Name | Type | Gold (Tonnes) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SPDR Gold Shares | ETF | 1,239 |
| 2 | ETF Securities Gold Funds | ETF | 259.79 |
| 3 | ZKB Physical Gold | ETF | 195.53 |
| 4 | COMEX Gold Trust | ETF | 137.61 |
| 5 | Julius Baer Physical Gold Fund | ETF | 93.50 |
| 6 | Central Fund of Canada | CEF | 52.71 |
| 7 | NewGold ETF | ETF | 47.75 |
| 8 | Sprott Physical Gold Trust | CEF | 32.27 |
| 9 | ETFS Physical Swiss Gold Shares | ETF | 27.97 |
| 10 | Bullionvault | Bailment | 37.1 |
| 11 | Central Gold Trust | CEF | 18.81 |
| 12 | GoldMoney | Bailment | 19.55 |
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