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Southern Africa · ZA

The continent's most mature metals market.

The Witwatersrand has produced more gold than any district on earth and the Bushveld holds most of the world's platinum group metals. Johannesburg has the refining, banking and regulation to trade both in volume.

Map of Africa with South Africa marked0°LONDON DESK
Hub
Johannesburg
We do
Trading, Mining
Metal
Gold, Platinum group metals, Silver
Districts
Witwatersrand Basin, Free State goldfields, Bushveld Complex, Barberton

01South Africa

Volume

Our Johannesburg desk trades refined gold, silver and platinum group metals with licensed producers, refiners and dealers under the Precious Metals Act 2005. The depth of the local banking and refining infrastructure lets us settle and deliver in size.

02South Africa

Platinum group metals

South Africa is where the business goes beyond gold. Platinum, palladium and rhodium from Bushveld producers are traded against the London and Zürich references and delivered to refiners, into vault or to industrial users. Refined metal from our other markets can be consolidated and marketed from here too.

03South Africa

Mining

We evaluate and hold interests in small and mid-scale gold operations, including tailings retreatment and the reworking of historic ground in Barberton and the Free State, where modern processing can recover what earlier operators left.

Compliance

How we stay clean in South Africa.

The standard is the same everywhere. These are the specifics here.

  1. 01

    Licensed under the Precious Metals Act 2005

  2. 02

    Licensed producers, refiners and dealers only

  3. 03

    Reserve Bank exchange-control compliance on exports

  4. 04

    Chain-of-custody records for every PGM consignment

In this market

What we do in South Africa.

  • 01Trading

    Gold trading

    We buy doré and refined gold from licensed producers in eight African markets, price it against the LBMA Gold Price and pay on assay.

    How we buy gold
  • 02Mining

    Mining

    Small and mid-scale gold mining with local licence holders. Our capital and management, their ground, the metal sold to us under offtake.

    Mining partnerships

Questions

South Africa, asked.

01Do you trade PGMs outside South Africa?

Sourcing is centred on South Africa. We market PGMs to counterparties worldwide through London and Zürich.

02Would you look at tailings or historic dumps?

Yes, where grade, tonnage and permitting add up. Send the data through the contact page.

Elsewhere

Other markets.

No.MarketActivityOpen
01Democratic Republic of the CongoTrading, Mining, Exploration
02UgandaTrading, Mining
03KenyaTrading, Exploration
04GabonTrading, Exploration

Get in touch

desk@miningaccord.com
08.30 to 18.00 GMT

Selling gold in South Africa?

Our South Africa team buys from licensed producers, cooperatives and dealers, prices against London and pays on assay.