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Bullion World | Volume 2 | Issue 10 | October 2022

















































                                             being shareholders. Today we are   untold lessons, and we are excited
                                             playing an active role in shaping   about what the next 100 years will
                                             conversations and driving the     bring. Through our unconditional
                                             dialogues to responsible mining   commitment to people, the planet
                                             through shareholder participation on   and products, we continue to pursue
                                             our board and sub-committees. Our   our ESG aspirations and fulfil the
                                             sourcing from shareholder and non-  demands and expectations of all our
                                             shareholder mines aligns well with   stakeholders.
                                             the OECD Due Diligence Guidance
           and SA Mint and continues to make   for Responsible Sourcing and    Our focus remains firmly on
           history with the recent launch of a   LBMA’s Responsible Gold Guidance   excellence, innovation, and
           new 24-carat gold bullion coin and   for Good Delivery refiners. We also   resilience. Our vision includes a
           one-ounce platinum series inspired   publicly identify our sources, and   holistic focus on people and the
           by Africa’s legendary Big 5, with the   every depositor must pass a rigorous   planet; we know that we are better
           first bullion coin series manufactured   on-boarding process and due   together. In the powerful words of
           exclusively from South African    diligence, whether a shareholder or   former President Nelson Mandela:
           platinum also added to the mix.   not. This has placed us in a situation   “It is in your hands to make a better
                                             where our DNA, developed over 100
           Underpinning all of these         years, stood us in good stead. Here   world for all who live in it.” To achieve
           achievements is our underlying,   I speak of our reputation and trust   that, we will never stop dreaming,
           unwavering approach to responsible   earned.                        and we will never give up on
           sourcing. We do not see this as                                     achieving.
           a tick-box exercise but place it at   Rand Refinery continues to gain
           the heart of everything we do, and   strength from the past and is
           this is supported by our enterprise   inspired by what the future holds.
           model, with large-scale mines     Our first century has certainly had


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