Gold moves from artisanal pits and industrial mines through a narrow band of refiners into jewellery, investment and central-bank vaults. Each stage has its own rules, its own registers, and its own gaps in what anyone can verify.
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How artisanal gold is actually dug, financed and sold, before any of the rest of this makes sense.
Start hereCountry by country: what the law says, who administers it, and how the register behaves in practice.
Compare countriesThe refiner and mine standards compared side by side: LBMA, RMI RMAP, RGMPs and CMSI, IRMA, RJC and more, each dated and status-tagged.
Compare the schemesThe binding rules and the famous ones that do less than assumed: the OECD baseline, EU instruments, US disclosure, sanctions and national laws.
Map the rulesThe refiner registers joined in one place, the exchanges, and the incident reviews currently open.
See the registersBar integrity, DLT ledgers, optical fingerprinting and geoforensics: what each system proves, and who can actually see its data.
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Open the librarySanctions, incident reviews and investigations into illicit gold flows, dated and rated, with responses documented.
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Read the full methodThe US Treasury designated the refinery and its principals on 25 June 2026 for refining and exporting gold from M23-controlled areas of the DRC (at least 60 kg moved in early 2026), following the 2022 Alain Goetz/African Gold Refinery precedent.
At its June 2026 summit, LBMA opened the public consultation on Responsible Gold Guidance v10 (integrating the ASM Toolkit, updating the recycled-gold definition, extending disclosures) and published the report Supporting Pathways for Responsible ASM on 17 June (per LBMA channels).
The Central Bank Gold Reserves Survey 2026, published 16 June, covered a record 76 central banks: 89% expect global gold reserves to rise and a record 45% expect their own holdings to rise.
The DRC formalisation venture, active in Ituri since 2013 with about 11 cooperatives (about 25,000 miners and support workers, self-reported), signed a deal on 11 June with UK-based SigraFi providing revolving working capital against deliveries.
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