students of financial history took profitable refuge in gold metal stocks. The Gold Mining Index, composed of ASA, Campbell Red Lake and Dome Mining, appreciated more than 260% from its 1973 low (40) to its 1974 high (147).


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Gold itself went from a monthly avg of $65 in 1/1973 to $183 in 12/1974.