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Gold has gained around six per cent in 2012.
Spot gold was up 0.4 per cent at $US1,646.54 an ounce by 1.22pm EST (0522 Friday AEDT), having touched a one-month high at $US1,661.71.
US gold futures for February delivery traded up $US8.50 an ounce at $US1,648.10 in decent volume.
Silver was up 0.6 per cent for the day at $US30.11 an ounce.
Spot platinum rose 0.1 per cent to $US1,491.49 an ounce, while spot palladium dropped one per cent to $US633.47 an ounce.
BASE METALS
Copper shot to a more than two-month high above $US8,000 per tonne after a drop in China's inflation and two successful European debt auctions emboldened market bulls and unleashed a wave of pent-up short-covering.
Copper saw heavy volume as it extended gains into a third day spurred by the prospect of easier monetary policy in top-consumer China and healthier demand views for the broader industrial metals, dealers said.
Copper's 2.8-per cent surge made it the biggest gainer in the Thomson Reuters-Jefferies CRB index, an impressive move for the metal on a day when the overall index was down. Its advance led other base metals, boosting nickel to a two-and-a-half-month high, aluminium to a near two-month top, tin to its highest in one-and-a-half months, and zinc to a one-month peak.
London Metal Exchange (LME) benchmark copper peaked at $US8,074.50 a tonne, its priciest level since October 31, before ending the day with a $US220 gain at $US8,005.
In New York, the key March COMEX contract rallied 10.30 US cents or by 2.9 per cent to settle at $US3.6490 per lb, near the top end of its $US3.5220 to $US3.6710 session range.
Three-month aluminium dipped $US3 to end at $US2,162 a tonne, after hitting a near two-month high at $US2,197 earlier in the day.
