Exactly. There's a reason why so much of the world's gold is locked up in bank vaults or in Indian house holds. World gold production from mining is ~3,000 tones per year, but Indian households have over 20,000 tones on hand and there is easily 40,000 tones stored in banks and other places worldwide, not to mention gold actually in use. We also get over 1,000 tones per year from scrap. For a commodity that the gold bugs would have you believe is in such strong demand as a commodity people sure do have a lot of it not being used for anything other than currency or "investment" and just like diamonds it is in everyone's best interests to tightly control the supply and keep this "precious" metal off the shelves.
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