Responsible Gold

Rand Refinery is committed to internationally accepted responsible sourcing practices and as such is in conformance with the LBMA Responsible Gold & Silver Guidance and the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High Risk Areas.

Not only do we ensure we meet the strictest standards we set for ourselves, our certified gold & silver chain-of-custody is independently audited to heed to the requirements set by independent bodies and recently enacted legislation:

Independent Bodies
Having co-operated and continuing to do so, Rand Refinery works very closely with many of these entities to ensure that our processes and systems are set up with continuous improvement. Doing so will ensure that ongoing certification is achieved.
Anti Money Laundering Policy
Confidential Whistleblowing
LBMA Compliance Report
PWC Report
Precious Metals Supply Chain Policy
Responsible Gold Certificate
Responsible Silver Certificate
Statement of commitment to Global Precious Metals Code

Rand Refinery is a key participant in forums regarding the best practice in sourcing and in bound supply chain. Rand Refinery attends:

  • Forums on Responsible Minerals Supply Chains
  • World Bank – OECD Roundtable on establishing a global platform on artisanal and small-scale mining
Responsible gold and silver policy statement

Certified Gold
Certified Gold adheres to the Responsible Gold policy and guarantees that all gold was mined in an eco-friendly manner and not recycled from scrap or other secondary, untraceable sources. It ensures that the chain of custody though refining can be traced back to its origin.

RandPure
We can provide full chain of custody from deposit to product where required by customers.

To report any responsible gold and/or silver incidents please email or call our ethics line on 0800 203 607

Investment Gold

Krugerrands

Locally respected and internationally acclaimed, the Krugerrand is the most widely held and actively traded bullion coin in the world with over 60 million ounces sold over the last 50 years. A brainchild of the Chamber of Mines in South African in 1967 and produced by Rand Refinery and the SA Mint, the Krugerrand tells a powerful story of resilience over time and promises investors an attractive return.

Krugerrand website

Why consider investing in Krugerrand?

Why consider investing in Krugerrand? The Krugerrand is made from 22 carat gold, 9167 of pure gold and 833 parts copper. The alloy with copper ensures that the coins are not easily scratched or defaced, thereby protecting their value and tradability. The Krugerrand is the only legal tender bullion coin with its face value denominated in ounces of pure gold, therefore it is guaranteed that the South African Reserve Bank will purchase any tendered Krugerrand at the ruling price of gold on the day.

In 2018, the silver bullion coin was launched. This coin is produced in unlimited mintage where the quantity struck is dependent on the market’s demands. The daily mintage relies on the daily price of silver. 1 ounce, ½ ounce, ¼ ounce and 1/10 ounce of pure gold available from:

Krugerrand Dealers: International
Krugerrand Dealers: Local
Coin and Minted Bar Dealers: Local
Coin and Minted Bar Dealers: International

Minted Bars

We have refined our brand, purifying it to create a new identity while being instantly recognisable as a symbol of quality, simplicity and integrity.

Rand Refinery acts as agent for selected gold producers in the refining, marketing and sale of their gold production. In so doing, we have liaison arrangements with Members of the LBMA in London for the sale and distribution of gold refined by Rand Refinery into Value Added Products.

With a recent change in legislation, South Africans are now able to invest in minted bars. Minted bars are however only available in 10g, 50g and 100g gold and 1oz silver to the South African market :

For all enquiries regarding minted bar products, kindly mail dealers@gold.co.za

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Good Delivery
Silver Bars

Like their cousins, Good Delivery Gold Bars, Good Delivery Silver Bars are the internationally accepted trading standard used by silver dealers, traders and bullion banks around the world to trade and deal in silver. Rand Refinery’s 1 000 troy ounce silver bars have had good delivery status on the London Metal Exchange since inception of silver accreditation.

Cast Bars

Good Delivery Gold Bars are the internationally accepted trading standard used by gold dealers, traders and bullion banks around the world to trade and deal in gold.

History and Accreditation

As an LBMA accredited London Good Delivery supplier, Rand Refinery has produced 400 troy ounce bars (also known as LGD bars), since inception.
The refinery’s 100 troy ounce cast bars also have good delivery status on the New York Mercantile Exchange (Comex Division) since 1974 and the 1000 gram bars on the Tokyo Commodity Exchange (Tocom) since 1993.

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Bars Weighing One Kilogram and Less

The company also manufactures and markets other standard cast gold bars with the official stamp of Rand Refinery, namely the 1000 gram bars. The weight specifications for the different markets are as follows:
  • India – 1000gm bars of 99,50 purity, 100gm bars of 99.90 purity
  • Turkey – 1000gm bars of 99.90 purity
  • Italy – 1000gm bars of 99,99 purity
  • Middle East – 1000gm bars of 99,50 purity
  • Far East – 999.9 kilo bars
Since 1994, Rand Refinery has become a major supplier of kilobars into the world markets in direct response to changing demand patterns.

Coin Blanks

Refined gold, cast into strips, is rolled and punched into coin blanks which are individually weighed to ensure that each blank contains the amount of gold requested and checked to ascertain that it conforms to the size i.e. diameter and thickness ordered. Orders for coin blanks usually come from mints around the world. The South African Mint is also a customer of Rand Refinery – see The South African Mint.

Coin blanks can be supplied in a certified alloy range of 9ct, 14ct, 18ct, 22ct and 24ct (9999’s) as well as 999 purity silver.

All coin blanks are produced from responsible gold.
Other diameters can be quoted for on request.

Coins and Medallions

Rand Refinery produces a range of coins and medallions for private investors to purchase via coin dealers. Coins in which contain a minimum of 99.5% fine gold are appropriate for private investors wishing to buy small amounts of pure gold. In many countries, including all member states of the European Union, gold purchased for investment purposes is exempt from VAT.

Rand Refinery produces a range of gold and silver semi-fabricated products in the form of wire and granules. The company – through its state of the art laboratory – also provides metallurgical advice and analytical services to the jewellery industry.

Rand Refinery produces gold carat alloys in grain form and sterling silver for the jewellery manufacturing industry.  These granules are much easier to work with as they are easier to melt and can also be sold in varying smaller quantities as required by the fabricators.

All gold semi-finished product is produced from responsible gold.

Semi-Finished Metal Product

Custom Product Development

Rand Refinery has both the expertise and leading-edge technology to be able to offer customised product development for a range of our customers.

Our Accreditation : We are accredited by various metal exchanges across the globe and are one of only five international LBMA referees, the only one of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere. We have also been appointed by the World Gold Council to the Responsible Gold Standards Committee. Our high standing in the global gold market makes Rand Refinery a trusted partner in the design, development and supply of gold and silver products. The Custom Services We Offer to Our Clients:
  • Central Banks: We recast old gold bars according to updated specifications from the LBMA.
  • Major Bullion Banks: We produce cast bars of various dimensions and purity according to customer specifications.
  • Commercial Banks: Minted bars of various dimensions and purity are produced, tailored to the customer’s requirements.
  • National mints: We produce coin blanks of various sizes and purity according to specification.
  • Metal laboratories: Our proof gold wire is used in many laboratories as the benchmark for purity when testing the quality of assays.

If your requirements are similar to any of the above, please contact us and we can discuss how best to meet your requirements.

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Independent Bodies

Responsible gold and silver policy statement

Rand Refinery is opposed to activities which, directly or indirectly, finance or benefit armed conflict and the extreme levels of violence which contribute to abuses of human rights. Rand Refinery is also committed to sourcing mined gold from operations which conform to internationally-accepted environmental practices.

Consequently, Rand Refinery commits to refraining from knowingly sourcing gold and silver bearing material from regions and operations which contribute to the financing of conflict or the degradation of the environment and further commits itself to comply with the relevant United Nations sanctions, recommendations and protocols from other appropriate supra-national bodies, in this regard.

In the event that gold and silver bearing material is sourced from conflict-affected and high risk areas, Rand Refinery will neither tolerate nor by any means profit from, contribute to, assist with or facilitate the commission by any party of any forms of inhuman treatment, any form of forced labour, use of child labour, gross human rights violations, war crimes or other crimes against humanity.

Rand Refinery will not tolerate any direct or indirect support to non-state armed groups through the extraction, transport, trade, logistical assistance, handling or export of gold and silver bearing material by such groups or their affiliates. Rand Refinery will apply a robust Know Your Customer (KYC) policy in order to identify upstream suppliers where dealings with such suppliers would be in contravention of this policy, would represent money laundering or other related criminal activity. Rand Refinery will not engage with suppliers identified in this way and will not accept refining or smelting deposits from such suppliers.

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100g and 1000g Purity can vary from 9950, 9990 to 9999

International Bullion Banks


Unathi Sihlahla

BA Hons Industrial Psychology, BA Human Resource Management

General Manager: Human Resources

Unathi holds an Honours Degree in Industrial Psychology from UNISA and has also completed a Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resource Management from Nelson Mandela University. She is an experienced HR professional with extensive experience in using Strategic Human Resources to drive value creation. Unathi has worked across a variety of different industries with vast geographical coverage – mainly multinational companies where she has provided HR support to the local South African market and the African continent with some regional responsibilities in EMEA. Her career started in the Uitenhage plant of Volkswagen Group South Africa, she has worked for and occupied generalist and niche HR positions in companies such as Sasol Limited, the JSE, ABB South Africa, BASF and Roche Diagnostics.

Unathi was appointed to the position of General Manager: Human Resources of Rand Refinery with effect from 1 March 2021.

Terance Nkosi

BEng (Chemical), BEng Honours (Environment), IMDP, PGDip (Human Sciences), MBA

Executive Head: SHEQ and Technical Assurance

Terance started his career at Samancor as a graduate metallurgist in January 2000. He later joined Rand Refinery as a plant metallurgist in August 2001, where he held various positions with the department. He was appointed as the Head: Smelter in May 2008 which is the position that he held until January 2016 when he was appointed as the Executive Head: SHEQ and Evaluation.

In 2012, Terance was nominated as the rising star in the minerals and mining category. Since the commencement of his career, he has been involved in the successful completion of several capital projects.

Peter Bouwer

General Manager: Refinery and Fabrication

Peter studied electronic engineering at the University of Pretoria and is a trained value systems engineering practitioner. Peter has worked in the fields of electrical and instrumentation engineering, process control systems engineering, business information systems, business intelligence and corporate strategy development before joining Rand Refinery. His business experience spans the coal mining, energy and petro-chemical industries as well as upstream oil and gas industries.

He has worked for a wide range of Companies in the field of strategy development both locally and internationally including governments and NGOs. Peter has conducted strategy-related work in Africa, North America, Europe, India and China.

Peter was appointed to the position of Chief Operating Officer of Rand Refinery with effect from 1 December 2014. Prior to his appointment of Chief Operating Officer, Peter served as the Chief Strategy Officer of Rand Refinery with effect from March 2010. The effective date of his appointment as the General Manager: Refinery and Fabrication was 1 November 2016.

Collin Naicker

HND Mechanical Engineering, BCom, MBA, Government Certificate of Competency (Factories)

General Manager: Smelter and Engineering Services

Collin is a certified Mechanical Engineer with 28 years’ experience in the manufacturing, minerals beneficiation and the metals industries. He also completed a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce (BCom) with specialisation in Management, Transport Economics and Logistics from the University of South Africa in 2006 and a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business’s in 2009. Collin also holds a government certificate of competency (GCC) for the factories environment.

Collin’s career initially commenced with Bell Equipment (Pty) Ltd, then BHP Billiton’s Aluminium South Africa and later Delta EMD Limited, where he held various technical and senior management positions in Engineering, Capital Projects, Business Improvement, Maintenance, Reliability, Production and Operations Management. Collin also held the senior executive role of Operations Director for JSE listed Delta EMD Limited and served on the Board of Directors.

In May 2016, Collin resigned as Operations Director of Delta EMD Limited to join Rand Refinery on 1 June 2016, as Head: Asset Care and Capital Projects. Since 1 November 2016, Collin has taken on the executive role of General Manager: Smelter and Engineering Services.

Herman Perry CA (SA)

Non-executive Director – Alternates

Herman Perry is a Chartered Accountant by profession with over 15 years’ experience within the finance and treasury functions of gold mining Companies. He has been in the finance function at Harmony Gold for the last 9 years, having previously worked in similar functions at AngloGold Ashanti. In addition to directorships of certain Harmony Group Companies, he is a director and member of the Investment Committee at the Rand Mutual Assurance Company and is a member of the Audit Committee at Rand Mutual Assurance Company.

Herman served as an alternate director to Marian van der Walt and is now alternate director to Harry Mashego.

Alexandra Strobl (46) CA (SA)

Non-executive Director – Alternates

Alex has in-depth mining operational African experience gained during her 16 years employment at AngloGold Ashanti focussed on the Continental African operations. She has previously been employed both at mine sites and at regional level in a senior financial management capacity and also led the Continental African regional supply chain function for 3 years. In 2019, Alex was appointed vice-president: group financial reporting.

Alex qualified as a charted accountant in 2009 after completing her articles at KPMG. Alex is an alternate director to Ian Kramer.

Vitesh Maharaj BSc

Non-executive Director

Vits was head of asset strategy and reliability at Angle American Corporation and head of engineering at Anglo American Platinum and previously held various operational and head-office roles at De Beers. He is currently senior vice-president of technical at AngloGold Ashanti. During his 27-year career he worked both on operational support and projects.

Vits has both multi-product (diamonds, gold and platinum) and multinational exposure with a deep understanding of all facets of the mining business. Vits joined Rand Refinery in May 2021 as a non-executive director and a permanent member of the Social and Ethics Committee

Mpho Mashatola CA (SA)

Non-executive Director

Mpho is a qualified CA(SA) and completed her tertiary education at the University of the Witwatersrand. She spent 6 years at KPMG South Africa in the Energy and Natural Resources business unit. After completing her articles in 2014 she was seconded to KPMG LLP in Detroit. She was promoted to an audit manager in 2015. During this time, she was responsible for managing JSE and NYSE listed clients within the gold mining industry. On 11 June 2018 she was appointed Group Financial Controller at DRDGOLD Limited and is involved in IFRS and US financial reporting, integrated reporting, sustainability reporting, technical accounting matters and Sarbanes Oxley compliance.

Mark Burrell

BCom (Acct), MDP (Mining Management)

Non-executive Director

Mark joined DRDGOLD in 2004 to assist with the evaluation of their ERPM operation and thereafter transferred to Blyvooruitzicht Gold Mining Company as Financial Manager. In 2012, Mark was appointed as Financial Director of DRDGOLD’s Ergo Mining. He is a director of East Rand Proprietary Mines, Crown Consolidated Gold Recoveries, Ergo Business Development Academy and Ergo Mining.

Mark was appointed as an alternate director to Themba Gwebu on 24 May 2012 and currently serves as an alternate director to Charles Symons.

Mark joined the Board of Rand Refinery on 24 May 2012.

Ian Kramer (50) CA (SA)

Non-Executive Directors

Ian qualified as a charted accountant in 1993. He spent 20 years at KPMG, 11 years as an external audit partner as part of KPMG’s mining group. During this time he was seconded to Canada and subsequently appointed the KPMG head of mining for Africa. Ian joined AngloGold Ashanti in 2012 as vice- president: finance. He was promoted to senior vice- president: group finance in 2019 and interim chief financial officer from September 2020. Ian has considerable experience in IFRS as well as US GAAP.

Harry Ephraim "Mashego" Mashego

BA (Education), BA (Hons), (Human Resources Management) Joint Management Development Programme, Global Executive Development Programme

Non-Executive Directors

Mashego joined Harmony in 2005 and has been responsible for group human resources development, transformation and, most recently, government relations. He has more than 20 years’ experience in human resources, acquired largely in the industrial sector. Mashego was appointed as an executive director at Harmony on 24 February 2010.

Mashego joined the Board of Rand Refinery on 9 August 2017, and is also a member of the Social and Ethics Committee.

Pieter Henning BCom, BCompt (Hons), CA (SA)

Non-Executive Directors

Pieter is the divisional Chief Financial Officer of Sibanye Gold Limited’s (‘Sibanye’) gold and uranium business and is a qualified Chartered Accountant (South Africa). He started his career at KPMG Inc. after which he joined Western Areas Limited in 2005 as Financial Manager. He was appointed Chief Financial Officer of Western Areas Limited in January 2007 and, with Gold Fields Limited (‘Gold Fields’) acquiring Western Areas Limited later that year, he joined the Gold Fields financial reporting team. From 2009 to 2013, Pieter was part of the Gold Fields corporate finance division responsible for various capital raisings in the international and local debt markets. With the unbundling of Sibanye in 2013, Pieter was appointed as Vice President: Corporate Finance responsible for finance and the external financial reporting functions of Sibanye.

Pieter was appointed on 21 October 2005 as a non-executive director of Rand Refinery. He serves as a member of the Audit and Risk Committee and the Remuneration and Nominations Committee.

Fatima Daniels BSc, CA (SA)

Independent Non-Executive Director

After spending several years in the auditing profession, Fatima went on to lecture in financial accounting and then spent over a decade in various positions in corporate South Africa. Fatima currently serves on several Boards.

Fatima has previously served on the Boards of Telkom, Metropolitan, Woolworths, South African Reserve Bank, SA Mint, SA Banknote, and Impala Platinum Holdings. She is currently a director of the MTN Group (various subsidiaries), Clicks Group, MMI Holdings, Tongaat Hulett, AfriSam Holdings and JSE Ltd Board.

Fatima was appointed as a non-executive director of Rand Refinery in June 2012 and also serves as the Chairman of the Audit and Risk Committee.

Rams Ramashia BIuris, LLB, LLM

Independent Chairman

Rams has held senior positions in various international and domestic Non-Governmental organisations which he used as a platform for anti-apartheid activism prior to 1994, culminating in his election as founding President of the South African National NGO Coalition (SANGOCO). Following the democratisation of the South African society, he was appointed Deputy Director-General of the National Department of Labour and later elevated to the position of Director-General (DG) of the Labour Department.

As DG of Labour, he was Government Chief Negotiator and overall Convenor of the government caucus at the National Economic and Labour Council (NEDLAC). He also represented the South African Government at the International Labour Organisation (ILO). As Labour DG, he also presided over the process of amending the Labour Relations Act (LRA) and the Basic Conditions of Employment Act (BCEA), respectively.

Prior to joining government Rams also served on the then Deputy President Mbeki’s Advisory Committee on the National Development Agency (NDA) as Head of its legal task team.

In 2004, Rams was appointed Regional President of BP Africa and Executive Chairman of the Board of BP Southern Africa. In 2011, he became non-executive chairman of BP Southern Africa.

Rams is a practicing advocate of the High Court and member of the Pretoria Society of Advocates.

He is a non-executive director of AECI where he serves on its Risk, Social and Ethics, Remuneration and Nomination Committees, respectively. He is also a non-executive director of Anglo American South Africa, where he chairs its Social and Ethics Committee and also serves on its Risk and Audit Committee. Rams is also a non-executive director of the Mineworkers Investment Company (MIC).

Rams also serves as a member of the NDA Ethics Board chaired by former Constitutional Court Judge Yvonne Mokgoro and is a member of the Human Resource Development Council.

Rams was appointed as the Independent Chairman of the Board of Rand Refinery in October 2010 where he also serves as Chairman of its Remuneration and Nominations Committee.

Dean Subramanian BCom, Hons Accounting CA (SA)

Chief Financial Officer

Dean Subramanian is a Chartered Accountant and has extensive CFO and Finance Executive experience.

Dean Subramanian held the position of Chief Financial Officer at ArcelorMittal listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Dean also held the position of Finance Director at Aveng Steel, an operating group of Aveng Limited, listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Dean worked both in the construction and manufacturing divisions of Aveng. Prior to that, Dean held various positions in the Banking, Construction, Aviation and Property industry. Dean has extensive experience in Africa and served his articles at EY in Johannesburg where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant; he was seconded by EY to New York where he worked.

Dean joined Rand Refinery in the position of CFO and Executive Director on 1 August 2018.

Praveen Baijnath PMD, MBA

Chief Executive

Praveen is a Chemical Engineer with more than 30 years’ experience in minerals beneficiation, smelting and refining, and the chemical process industry. He attended University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business Program (PMD) in 1995 and in the year 2000 attained an MBA with distinction from the University of Wales.

Praveen Baijnath was appointed as Chief Executive of Rand Refinery on 1 June 2015. He is also an Executive Director on the Rand Refinery Board. His other board directorships include Prestige Bullion and the Ekurhuleni Jewellery Project.

He was previously (2009-2015) Group CEO of JSE listed Delta EMD and remains on the Board of Delta EMD Limited as independent, non-executive director. He also served as CEO of Gold Reef Speciality Chemicals. His previous roles spanning a period of 20 years was with Huntsman Corporation in process and chemical engineering, plant management and executive management roles in Operations, EHS, Technical and Strategic Development.

He is a member of the South African Institute of Directors, South African Institute of Chemical Engineers and an Associate of The Institution of Chemical Engineer (IChemE).