The spark spectrum of gold was photographed in the 540-2080 Angstrom r
egion on 10.7 m and 3 m normal incidence spectrographs. The number of
classified lines for Au III was increased from 295 to 1040 and 134 new
levels were added to the 62 levels of the early analysis. They belong
to the doubly excited configurations 5d(7)6s(2) and 5d(7)6s6p and to
the mixed group 5d(8)(6d + 7s). Parametric calculations satisfactorily
explain the experimental energies. Theoretical transition probabiliti
es are reported for selected strong transitions.