Responsibility
The gold’s
path
We want to be able to say of any bar: this is where it came from, and these are the hands it passed through.
Three
questions
Where was it mined?
We buy from partners who can show the ground their gold comes from.
How it is shown differs by country: by the papers for the mine, by the records of those who buy from the miners, or by our own people working at the site.
Who handled it?
Each handover between the mine and the refinery is recorded.
A handover is written down with both sides named, the date, the weight and the numbers of the seals. Each one is signed.
How did it leave?
Through its country’s own export system, with that country’s papers.
Those papers show that the gold was declared, weighed and tested, and released for export by the country it came from.