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About GoldCue
GoldCue exists because “what is my gold worth?” is asked in grams and tola, at kitchen tables and jewellers’ counters — and answered, too often, with a number nobody shows the working for.
We are the GoldCue Desk — a small site of gold calculators and guides, written and checked by the same desk that maintains the tools. The site does four things: a value calculator that prices any gold by karat and weight, a karat price table covering grams, tola and troy ounces in dollars and rupees, a calculator for gold bought years ago, and a year-by-year price history from 2000 to 2025.
Our three rules
- Show the working. Every figure on GoldCue is calculated from a spot price with published conversions — 31.1034768 grams to the troy ounce, 11.6638038 grams to the tola, karat ÷ 24 for purity — and our methodology page states the whole method so you can check any number yourself.
- Date every price. Gold moves daily; a price without a date is a trap. Our figures ship with a snapshot of 2 November 2026, labelled as a snapshot everywhere it appears, and every calculator lets you type in today’s spot price and dollar rate instead. We never present a stored price as a live one.
- Say what the number is not. Our values are melt values — the worth of the metal, not a jeweller’s buying offer (lower) or a shop’s selling price (higher). Where a guide discusses what buyers typically pay, it says so as a range and a tendency, not a promise.
How the desk checks its own numbers
Every figure on GoldCue is produced by the site’s own calculation engine — the same code that powers the calculators — never typed in from a rate board. Before a figure is published, the desk re-derives it from the spot price and the published conversions, and cross-checks it against the sources named on the methodology page: the LBMA-based price series for the history data, and the State Bank interbank rate for the rupee conversion. When a snapshot is refreshed, the whole edition is re-checked together — calculator, karat table, guides and history — so the site never shows two editions side by side. And when something is wrong, the correction is made in the engine first, so it fixes the figure everywhere it appears at once.
What GoldCue is not
We do not buy, sell or hold gold, we do not offer financial advice, and we do not predict prices. The history pages describe what gold did; nothing here claims to know what it will do. If a figure on the site ever disagrees with another figure on the site, or with your own correct arithmetic, we want to hear about it — corrections keep the calculators and guides in agreement, which is the whole point of the site. Use the contact page.