Gold, Minerals and Commodity Trade
The transaction taught properly: who is involved, what is measured, how every document is verified, and exactly where it goes wrong.
Full course in preparation. Enrolment, fees and dates are not yet open.
- Proposed total
- 20 hours
- Module learning
- 14 hours
- Guided practice
- 3 hours
- Assignment
- 3 hours
Planning estimates, including 14 modules. Your pace and the final delivery format may change the timetable.
What you will practise.
- Identify each participant in a commodity transaction and what they are responsible for
- Establish weight and purity through an assay you commissioned rather than one you were handed
- Verify a licence, permit or certificate directly with the authority that issued it
- Recognise the advance fee, urgency and forged document patterns before they cost you money
- Assemble a transaction file that stands up before any payment leaves your account
A practical piece of work.
A fictional mineral transaction file with evidence gaps and decision points.
Fictional training scenarios. Feedback and assessment arrangements will be confirmed with the final programme.
14 modules. A clear progression.
01How the gold trade actually works
60 min
- The chain from producer to refinery
- Where a foreign buyer can and cannot enter it
Proposed learning: Written lesson · Worked example
02Market participants
60 min
- Producer, dealer, exporter, buyer
- Refinery, laboratory, logistics, bank, regulator
- Who carries which obligation
Proposed learning: Written lesson · Worked example
03Weight, purity and assay
60 min
- Units and measurement
- Fire assay, XRF and what each one proves
- What an assay establishes and what it does not
Proposed learning: Written lesson · Worked example
04The independent assay
60 min
- Commissioning your own test rather than accepting one
- Choosing the laboratory and controlling the sample
- Why a refusal to allow independent testing ends the conversation
Proposed learning: Checklist
05Pricing
60 min
- Reference price versus transaction price
- What a steep discount to spot is actually telling you
Proposed learning: Written lesson · Worked example
06Licences, permits and lawful export
60 min
- Dealer licence, export permit, certificate of origin
- What a lawful export requires end to end
Proposed learning: Checklist
07Verifying a document with the issuer
60 min
- Document references, dates and issuing bodies
- Confirming it with the issuing authority directly, never through the seller
- Why an emailed PDF proves nothing on its own
Proposed learning: Worked example · Checklist
08Verifying the counterparty
60 min
- Registration, ownership and standing
- Matching the licence holder to the person in front of you
Proposed learning: Written lesson · Worked example
09Site and inventory verification
60 min
- What a site visit establishes and what it cannot
- Warehouses rented for the visit, and mines that cannot be located independently
- Arranging observation you control rather than a tour the seller controls
Proposed learning: Case study
10Chain of custody
60 min
- Sealing, transfer and documentation at each handover
- Where custody breaks and who is exposed when it does
Proposed learning: Written lesson · Worked example
11Responsible sourcing
60 min
- OECD due diligence guidance for mineral supply chains
- What a buyer is expected to have asked
Proposed learning: Written lesson · Worked example
12Payment structures and exposure
60 min
- Escrow, letters of credit, payment on assay
- Which side carries the risk under each one
- Why unverified advance-fee demands require a pause and independent checks
Proposed learning: Checklist
13The fraud patterns that recur
60 min
- Advance fees for tax, clearance or documentation
- Manufactured urgency and the expiring offer
- Forged certificates, licences and origin papers
- Why each one works on serious, experienced people
Proposed learning: Case study
14Building your transaction file
60 min
- What you should be holding, in what order, before any money moves
Proposed learning: Downloadable guide · Assignment
This is the programme outline. The full lessons and any recordings are still being prepared.
Map a Mineral Transaction
Understand the roles, evidence and open questions in a mineral supply chain before considering a transaction.
Read the explanation, try a fictional scenario and use the worksheet. Allow about 30 minutes for reading and practice.
Take the next step with clarity.
The Academy teaches a process. If you need work carried out on your own business, asset or transaction, discuss an advisory engagement with a separate scope.
Before enrolment opens
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Educational material does not replace legal, financial, tax or engineering advice, laboratory testing or current guidance from the relevant authorities.
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