Gold is a connected system of mines, producers, traders, refiners, regulators, standards and programmes. Start with the question you need to answer, then move from a subject to the public evidence and relationships behind it.
Start with mining, trade, refining and the points where responsible-sourcing claims enter the chain.
Open the Directory for named people and institutions, or the Sector Map for the relationships between them.
The Sector Map puts named people, places, institutions and rules into one connected view. Open a point to inspect the public evidence behind a relationship.
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Start with the physical conditions under which gold is mined, and the countries it comes from.
Meet the producers, traders, refiners and downstream buyers the metal actually passes through.
Find the civil-society groups, funders, people, media, communities and armed actors around the sector.
Read what governs it: the initiatives, institutions, rules, standards and jurisdictions in play.
Inspect the connected evidence, the full directory, coverage, source material and published figures.
The figures below are calculated from the same public evidence as the Sector Map. Open Coverage to see how the Hub distinguishes breadth, corroboration and named gaps.
The association, ASMP, launched the Swiss Precious Metals Transparency Platform, a public interface for sourcing information on precious metals processed in Switzerland. What it publishes is the industry’s own account of origin, so the Hub holds it as a single source and keeps it apart from any individual refiner’s claims.
Code for Africa, Earth Genome and the Pulitzer Center publish machine-learning detections of mining activity read from satellite imagery, under an open data licence and alongside a public mapathon. The detections name no commodity, so they establish neither gold nor mine type, legality nor ownership. A detection becomes evidence about a site here only where this Hub already identifies that site from an independent source.
The Swiss refining group PX, in La Chaux-de-Fonds, describes a label of its own covering traceability and mercury-free artisanal sourcing, refined through PX Précinox. Mazars examined segregation and traceability for one selected 2024 transaction, so the assurance on offer reaches that transaction and stops short of the label as a whole.
The 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.
A source link is not the same as corroboration. The Hub shows the standing of a claim, the date it was checked and any disagreement that changes how it should be read.
Send a source, a correction or a question. Additions are assessed against the same public-source and evidence rules as everything else here.