What Is Responsible Gold Sourcing?

The starting point is identification: knowing who a supplier or buyer is, who controls the business and who is authorised to transact.

Identification is repeated and updated rather than performed once.

Source information about the material, together with verification of its characteristics, forms the second element. What information is available varies by product and transaction.

Records of counterparties, transactions and documentation allow decisions to be reviewed later. Without records, due diligence cannot be demonstrated.

Buyers have their own obligations at the destination. Asking a supplier how it approaches these questions is a reasonable part of commercial discussion, and a clear answer is more useful than an unsupported claim of certification.