YEREVAN, November 2. /ARKA/. The State Depository of Precious Stones and Metals Agency, an affiliation of Armenian Finance Ministry,  set new prices for government agencies to buy and sell precious stones and metals which were effective from October 24 to October 30. The new prices were for one gram of chemically pure metals.

Gold was  to be bought at 17,760.66 drams (up 0.2% or  39.11 drams from the previous period) and sold at 19,305.06 drams (up 0.2% or  42.5 drams); silver was  to be bought at 247.04 drams (down 0.24 drams) and sold at 268.52 drams (down 0.26 drams); platinum was to be bought at 13,165.27 (down 220.16 drams) and sold at 14,310.08 drams (down 239.02 drams) and  palladium was  to be bought at 8,932.8 drams (down 256.8 drams ) and sold at 9,709.6 drams (down 279.14 drams) ($1- 475.36 drams).  --0----