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Hallmarking figures in November were up 13% as all metals recorded an overall increase in the amount of articles hallmarked.
That is according to the latest data released today by the four UK assay offices, and compiled by the Birmingham Assay Office, which found the total number of articles hallmarked was 1,254,777 – up from the 1,109,186 articles hallmarked in the same month last year.
The figures show that gold hallmarking was up 11.1% as the number of 14-carat and 22-carat articles hallmarked grew 54% and 15.9% respectively. The number of 9-carat gold articles hallmarked increased by 10.8%.
Meanwhile the number of silver articles hallmarked grew 14.8% to 591,825, while platinum and palladium increased by 22% and 16.2% respectively.
| Month | Month | Variance | % | |||
| Nov-14 | Nov-15 | |||||
| Gold | ||||||
| 999 | 45 | 26 | -19 | -42.2 | ||
| 990 | 3 | 0 | -3 | -100.0 | ||
| 916 | 37,630 | 43,597 | 5,967 | 15.9 | ||
| 750 | 92,956 | 99,685 | 6,729 | 7.2 | ||
| 585 | 6,774 | 10,429 | 3,655 | 54.0 | ||
| 375 | 428,936 | 475,340 | 46,404 | 10.8 | ||
| 566,344 | 629,077 | 62,733 | 11.1 | |||
| Silver | ||||||
| 999 | 2,084 | 1,433 | -651 | -31.2 | ||
| 958 | 900 | 1,063 | 163 | 18.1 | ||
| 925 | 512,563 | 589,257 | 76,694 | 15.0 | ||
| 800 | 48 | 62 | 14 | 29.2 | ||
| 515,595 | 591,815 | 76,220 | 14.8 | |||
| Platinum | ||||||
| 999 | 14 | 0 | -14 | -100.0 | ||
| 950 | 20,662 | 25,866 | 5,204 | 25.2 | ||
| 900 | 31 | 28 | -3 | -9.7 | ||
| 850 | 531 | 7 | -524 | -98.7 | ||
| 21,238 | 25,901 | 4,663 | 22.0 | |||
| Palladium | ||||||
| 999 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | ||
| 950 | 4,724 | 6375 | 1,651 | 34.9 | ||
| 500 | 1,285 | 609 | -676 | -52.6 | ||
| 6,009 | 6984 | 975 | 16.2 | |||
| 1,109,186 | 1,253,777 | 144,591 | 13.0 |
