As of 2026-10-13, COMEX-approved vaults held about 23.48M oz of gold: 14.88M oz registered (63.4%) and 8.60M oz eligible (CME Group daily warehouse report, via The Vault Report; figures rounded to 0.01M oz by the source). October month-to-date deliveries were roughly 1.25M oz as of 2026-10-14. Live cards below load from our data file.
COMEX warehouse stocks (gold & silver)
Report date: 2026-10-13. Source: CME Group daily warehouse reports via The Vault Report.
Silver
Gold
Gas tank: registered stock vs. deliveries
Each tank is filled to COMEX registered ounces; the dark band is month-to-date delivered ounces, on the same scale.
Gold: registered ≈14.88M oz; October deliveries so far ≈1.25M oz.
What the categories mean
CME Group reports gold held in each COMEX-approved depository every business day. Registered gold has a warehouse warrant and can be delivered against a COMEX gold futures contract. Eligible gold meets the exchange's standards for bar size, purity and approved refiners, but has no warrant, so it's simply stored. Owners can move metal between the two categories with paperwork, or withdraw it from the vaults.
The standard COMEX gold contract (GC) is 100 troy ounces, and deliveries are usually made with 100-ounce or 1-kilogram bars. That's why gold delivery counts look large in contracts but smaller in ounces than silver: 1,000 gold contracts are 100,000 ounces, while 1,000 silver contracts are 5 million ounces.
How gold differs from silver at COMEX
Gold inventory is measured in millions of ounces, silver in hundreds of millions, because silver costs far less per ounce. Gold's registered share of the total is also usually higher than silver's. In dollar terms, though, the gold stock is much bigger: 23.48M oz of gold at about $4,160.70 an ounce is worth roughly five times the silver stock.
Large bank vaults hold most registered gold, and gold also moves between COMEX and the London market, where 400-ounce bars are the standard. Flows between New York and London can shift COMEX stocks quickly, for example when the price difference between the two markets widens. A big move in the numbers is worth noticing, but it doesn't by itself tell you why it happened.
Reading the numbers carefully
Our gold figures come from aggregators that round to the nearest 10,000 ounces, so small daily changes can be rounding. Dates can also differ between the inventory figure and the delivery figure, and we label each one. We describe what the data shows and don't forecast what it means for prices.
Sources
FAQ
What is registered gold on COMEX?
Gold in a COMEX-approved vault that carries a warehouse warrant, making it deliverable against a COMEX gold futures contract.
How many ounces are in a COMEX gold contract?
The standard COMEX gold futures contract (GC) is 100 troy ounces.