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Bullion World | Issue 04 | August 2021

What kind of systems In case of higher fineness, yet BIS
that you follow to ensure has to check and certify the technical
consistency? capabilities of the centres which are
mostly equipped to serve till 22K. Those
As per BIS standards, centre had
centres need to enhance their technical Ankur Goyal has 30 years of
been set up with infrastructure to do
competency for doing assays of gold production and techno-commercial
hallmarking successfully. Our centre marketing experience in the Indian
above 22K. Technical capability of
follows all the guidelines of BIS on gems and jewellery industry. He
assayers is also one of the challenges in
hallmarking and strictly follow the Indian has played key roles in setting up
the country
standard IS15820. IS1417 and IS 1418. manufacturing units for large jewellery
organisations including Tanishq
MMTC-PAMP has the system and and Vaibhav Gems, and employed
From inbound to Outbound, at every
technical capabilities to test higher this deep expertise in the set-up of
step automation had been implemented our world-class production facility.
fineness Karat jewellery and being
to avoid any kind of human intervention. At MMTC-PAMP, he heads our
London Buliion Market Associaton/NABL
Traceability for each and very lot is Precious metal Refining, Minting and
accredited laboratory, every assayer has
maintained through the system. Hallmarking operations, and drives
been trained to test jewellery of 24 K product and process innovation that
steers us towards global leadership.
Our prime moto is Quality without
Any other comments? Currently part of MTD 10 ie Precious
compromise which is the base of metal committee of Indian Bureau of
Government need to think for new
success for the system. Centre is Indian Standards (BIS) and serves
assaying methods like European
equipped with highly accurate and as a technical assessor with National
countries are following for Hallmarking
precise imported XRF Spectrometers, Accreditation Board for Testing and
which will save the time of processing Calibration Laboratories (NABL)
Laser marking machines, Fire assay
and will enhance the accuracy level as Ankur holds Bachelor’s and Master’s
set up and highly experienced and
well. degrees in Metallurgy from the Indian
dedicated staff.
. Institute of Technology, Roorkee and
Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
What are your plans for India should aim to be permanent respectively.
member of Vienna convention.
scaling up the business in ............................................................
Pankaj Deshmukh has 19 years of
the future? Government also need to think for the experience in precious metal assaying
We are fully committed to serve nation by charges of Rs 35/pc for the hallmarking and heads the Assay laboratory
providing Quality hallmarking business as currently its quite low and with new in MMTC-PAMP India since 2010.
and fully supporting government on HUID system there is additional cost Pankaj had earlier been associated
implementation of mandatory hallmarking incurred by the hallmarking centres with Johnson Matthey, Gurgaon plant
scheme. In near future we have certain thereby putting question on centre and with Shirpur Gold Refinery Ltd.
in its assay laboratory. Contributed
plans to scale up this business through viability. towards achieving LBMA Gold and
our upcoming hallmarking centres at Silver, ISO 17025:2005 from NABL,
various location pan India. BIS certification for refinery and
set up of Hallmarking Centers and
What are the challenges their certification from BIS. Overall
experience comprises of Assaying of
faced during the precious metal alloys and Ashes by
hallmarking process using Fire assay and spectroscopic
especially with 24k? methods. He is Certified ISO17025
assessor for NABL since 2018 and
Every initiative has its own set of
Member of BIS MTD10 precious
challenges and so here too. Initial metal standard committee. Pankaj
challenges post mandatory hallmarking, holds a master’s degree in Analytical
is mainly HUID system by BIS, which Chemistry
itself has many limitations in terms of
automation, speed, service, efficiency,
and cost.

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