Compliance · Gold
Gold: the strictest trade we run.
Gold combines every risk in the mineral trade — money laundering, smuggling, conflict financing and fraud. We trade it only between approved counterparties, with evidence at every step.
- Applies to
- 1 mineral
- Reviewed
- September 2026
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Our controls
- Gold offers are visible only to verified companies that we have separately approved for gold.
- Gold requests require a signed-in business account.
- Every lot needs an accepted export licence and mine-of-origin evidence before it can be published.
- Doré goes to a refinery accredited under the LBMA Good Delivery list or an equivalent standard, which performs its own due diligence.
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Standards buyers expect
- LBMA Responsible Gold Guidance
- Required of Good Delivery refiners: supply-chain due diligence aligned with the OECD guidance, independently audited.
- OECD Gold Supplement
- Specific guidance for gold, including artisanal and small-scale mining.
- National export channels
- Several producer countries route artisanal gold exports through a central bank or state agency — for example Ghana's GoldBod, created in 2025.
Common frauds
Offers of gold 'at a discount to LBMA', requests for advance fees for certificates or storage, and documents from unverifiable refineries. We do not deal in any of them.
Last reviewed September 2026. Rules change — confirm before you contract.
