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Item 5. Other Information

2024-09-06 compared with 2024-06-07 · 19 added, 16 removed, 13 unchanged (73% of the section changed)

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During the period covered by this Quarterly Report,

none of the individuals responsible for overseeing the business and operations of the Trust adopted , modified or terminated a “Rule

10b5-1 trading arrangement” or “non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement” (as such terms are defined in Item 408 of Regulation

S-K under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended).

the period covered by this Quarterly Report, none of the individuals responsible for overseeing the business and operations of the Trust

adopted , modified or terminated a “Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement” or “non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement”

(as such terms are defined in Item 408 of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended).

Depositary Trust Agreement between Merk Investments LLC, as sponsor, and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 filed with Registration Statement No.

2 unchanged sentences

Second Amendment to the Depositary Trust Agreement, dated as of April 28, 2016, by and between Merk Investments LLC, as sponsor of the Trust, and the Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee of the Trust (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1(c) filed with Annual Report on Form 10-K/A on April 29, 2016)

Third Amendment to the Depository Trust Agreement, dated as of August 20, 2024, by and between Merk Investments LLC, as sponsor of the Trust, and the Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee of the Trust (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 filed with Current Report on Form 8-K on August 20, 2024)

Certification by Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

6 unchanged sentences

Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document.

Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL and contained

in Exhibit 101).

The information in Exhibit 32 shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act, or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act (including this report), unless the Company specifically incorporates the foregoing information into those documents by reference.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities

Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned in its capacities* thereunto

duly authorized.

MERK INVESTMENTS LLC

Sponsor of the VanEck Merk Gold Trust

/s/ Axel Merk

President and Chief Investment Officer

(Principal Executive Officer, Principal Financial Officer, and Principal Accounting Officer)

The Registrant is a trust and the person is signing in his capacities as officers of Merk Investments LLC, the Sponsor of the Registrant.

Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101).

information in Exhibit 32 shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,

as amended, or the Exchange Act, or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by

reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act (including this report), unless the Company

specifically incorporates the foregoing information into those documents by reference.

to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by

the undersigned in its capacities* thereunto duly authorized.

INVESTMENTS LLC

of the VanEck Merk Gold ETF

September 6, 2024

and Chief Investment Officer

Executive Officer,

Principal Financial Officer, and

Principal Accounting Officer)

Registrant is a trust and the person is signing in his capacities as officers of Merk Investments LLC, the Sponsor of the Registrant.

Compared sentence by sentence after normalising whitespace, quotation marks, case and digits, so re-formatting and restated figures do not read as changed language. Wording changes appear as one removal and one addition. The current filing and the prior one are authoritative.

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