GOLD prices have dropped to a near-three-month low to below $600 an ounce, and continue to be dragged down by falling crude oil prices. The decline – to a low of $574/oz at one point – seems to have spurred gold sales in Gujarat.%%Gujarat, where daily trading has jumped almost 200 per cent to over 1,500 kg, despite the inauspicious period of Shraddh, when consumers usually avoid gold purchases.