What was here before
Between October 2011 and March 2016, BullionStreet published English-language trade reporting on precious metals from an editorial desk in New Delhi. It filed 5,357 dispatches, among them daily prices, policy announcements, mine production figures, exchange rule changes and corporate results, all with a distinctly physical-market perspective: prices were quoted in rupees per ten grams as readily as in dollars per ounce, jewellers and stockists appeared as market participants, and import duty was treated as part of a price rather than as friction around it.
Then it stopped, in the spring of 2016, without a closing note. What the desk had filed was a five-year run of dated reporting on a market that had just been through a record high, a collapse and a policy response, and none of it stops being true because the reporting stopped. A price quoted on a given day remains a fact about that day.
What this site does
It makes those addresses answer again, substantially and honestly. Twenty-two dispatches, the ones carrying a checkable figure plus two whose explanatory value has outlasted the news, are restored in full at their original addresses, with their original headlines, slugs, numeric identifiers and publication dates unchanged. Around them sit eight section hubs that describe what each part of the archive covered, and four reference pages that set out the market mechanics the dispatches assumed their readers already knew.
Around 590 further dispatches are consolidated rather than reproduced: each one resolves to the hub or reference page that genuinely covers its subject, so an old address lands on something relevant instead of on a stub or a homepage. Three templated directories totalling 2,462 near-empty database entries, and 1,898 machine-generated tag pages, are consolidated the same way. They were a name and an address with little else attached, and reproducing them would have meant thousands of empty pages.
How the two kinds of writing are separated
There are exactly two categories of text on this site, and they are never mixed. Archived material is frozen: reproduced as filed, dated prominently, and never modernised. Everything else, from the hubs and the reference layer to the standfirsts and the explanatory notes around each dispatch, is current writing, describing what was reported rather than claiming to have reported it.
That separation is why the site can be useful without being misleading. A price from 2013 is a historical observation and is labelled as one. An explanation of how a benchmark price is established is current, and lives on its own page where it can be kept current. Mixing the two, whether by quietly refreshing an old dispatch's figures or by writing new commentary in the old desk's voice, would destroy the only property that makes an archive worth consulting.
How prices, dates and attribution are handled
Every price on the site is dated and sits beside the date it was published, and prices appear only inside the dispatches and inside Charts & Data. There is no live ticker, deliberately: a price strip that silently froze would undermine the site's single claim, which is that every number on it is correctly dated.
Market views carried in the archive are dated opinions, not recommendations. Several of them turned out to be wrong, and they are kept with their dates prominent precisely because removing them would misrepresent the record; the mid-2012 silver case is the clearest example. Attribution follows the archive: the desk was the byline, so pages carry a neutral publication line and no individual is named.
For corrections, additions or takedown requests, see contact. For the full list of restored pages, the sitemap lists every one with its original publication date.
Questions about this site
How can I tell archived material from the explanatory pages?
By the date block. Every archived dispatch carries a provenance record at the top: the filing date and time in the archive's own format, the section and the address reference, followed by a dated-figures notice. The explanatory pages in Charts & Data and the section hubs carry no filing date, because they are not dated documents. If a page has a filing date it is a 2011–2016 document reproduced as published; if it does not, it is current explanatory writing.
Who maintains the site?
It is maintained privately as a reference project. There is no newsroom, no editorial staff and no commercial relationship with any bullion dealer, exchange, mint or fund mentioned in the archive. The site sells nothing and carries no advertising or affiliate links; see advertising for the position on that.
Can I cite pages on this site?
Yes, and the addresses are stable, which is the point. Each dispatch carries its original publication date and its own canonical address, printed on the page in a form you can copy. Cite the original publication date rather than the date you read it, because the material is a 2011–2016 document and the date is what makes it meaningful.
Are the figures on the restored pages reliable?
They are faithful to what was published, which is a different claim from being correct. Where the original dispatch quoted a price, a tonnage or a forecast, the restored page reproduces it as filed and states the date. Where the original was wrong or has since been superseded, the restored page says so rather than silently correcting it, because an archive that quietly edits its own record is worth nothing.
Why are the page titles sometimes awkwardly worded?
Because they are the original headlines, kept exactly as published, including their original punctuation and spacing. Several are quoted verbatim in reference-work citations, where the wording and the date are the whole point of the reference. Tidying them would break those citations, so the awkwardness is deliberate.