Corporate Acknowledgements

This website relies on industry sponsors and corporate support to cover the costs of its development, maintenance and expansion.

GIR is indebted to the World Gold Council as the major sponsor, AngloGold Ashanti Limited whose initial support enabled the project to get off the ground, and the corporate support of international gold dealers, refiners, mints and other industry entities.

Sources of publishing support. IT: Little Edie Creative Industries (Australia). Design: Graphic Elements Pty Ltd (Australia). Photography: Illustrations Ltd (Australia). Legal: Tait and Co (Australia). Website host: Web Hosting UK (United Kingdom).

About This Website

This website offers access to a wealth of information on the world's most widely traded gold bars and the refiners that manufacture them.

For dealers, investors, fabricators, refiners, mining companies, central banks, gold associations and others with an interest in the international gold bar market.

The website has also started to cover the world's leading gold bullion coins.

Structure

For ease of reference, the information is contained under two main categories:

"Basic Information": For those who want an introduction to the world of gold bars, gold refiners and gold bullion coins.

"Industry Information": Additional supplements for those, particularly industry entities, who want more detailed information.

Most sub-sections and supplements are in PDF format so that the information can be more clearly presented.

General Acknowledgements

GIR is greatly indebted to the featured gold-related associations and exchanges, and the featured refiners and issuers of bars, for providing information and photographs and reviewing relevant texts.

Many individuals, on behalf of their companies, have provided information, photographs or support. While all cannot be acknowledged, especially those who have participated through corporate co-ordinators, the known support of the following is much appreciated.

Europe

Austria: Franz Artmueller, Christian Kölbl, Kerry Tattersall
Belgium: Bruno Kussé, Marjolein Scheers
Germany: Barbara Boehning, Ralf Drieselmann, Stephan Henkel, Oliver Heuschuch, Heike Kern-Diefenthäler, Miriam Marx, L. Radowitz, David Reymann, Hans-Günter Ritter, Oliver Stoehr, Thomas Weiss, Wolfgang Wrzesniok-Rossbach
Luxembourg: Adrien Biondi, Jean-Peter Kanstein, Diana Kratz
Netherlands: Sytze Riedstra, Yvonne Schultz
Spain: Julian Sarda
Sweden: Stig Larsson
Switzerland: Heinz Aeshbacher, Thomas Bachmann, Mehdi Barkhordar, Claudio Berger, Graziella Brolpito, Erwin Diethelm, Nicole Federle, Brigitte De Feudis, Serge Gambs, Anne Garavaglia, Theo Gautschi, Nadia Haroun, Peter Häsler, Wilfrid Hörner, Elisabetta Lavezzini, Francesca Leoni, Manfred Leuenberger, Umberto Magro, Boldini Massimo, Michael Mesaric, Roland Mueller, Erhard Oberli, Markus Puentener, Perrine Schnegg, Reto Steiner, Daniela Weithaler, Pui Ling Comte Yip
United Kingdom: Rebecca Adamson, David Badham, Anne-Marie Byrne, James Burton, Susanne Capano, Kevin Clancy, Kevin Crisp, Natalie Dempster, Graham Dyer, David Gornall, Marcus Grubb, John Mulligan, Stewart Murray, Ross Norman, Joseph Payne, Katherine Pulvermacher, Peter Smith, Paul Walker, Simon Weeks

Americas

Canada: Lina Cerilli, Olivia Chen, Carl Daoust, John Dourekas, Ray Gaudet, Lydia Jay, Bart Kitner, Robert Leclair, David Madge, Adam Miller, Clarissa Peralta, Mark Yaxley
USA: Grant Angwin, Joann Arena, Kenneth Beilstein, Betty Birdsong, John Burdsall, Jerry Gill, Greg Hafner, Cathy Laperle, Natalia Lis, Barbara Moriarty, Jon Nadler, G. Miguel Perez-Santalla, Jack Szczerban, Chuck Tatakis, James Zeng
Brazil: Antonio Carlos Aidar, Patricia Maria Brighenti, Larissa Brito Leal, Claudia Meinberg, Clara Nunes, Mário Rodrigo Leitzke Palhares, Ana Santos, Daniel da Cruz Gouveia Viera

Middle East & India

Turkey: Asli Akin, Saliha Ascensio, Selman Bayoglu, Tarek Caliskur, Erman Donmez, Cihan Göksel, Omer Halaç, Özcan Halaç, Ezgi Ince, Mahnaz Subasi, Erkan Topcu, Abdullah Tütüncü, Mustafa Ulukan
United Arab Emirates: Ehab Abusabha, Moaz Barakat, Franco Bosoni, Alison Burns, Monisha Cooper, Mohamed El Zubeir, Ali Akbar Haroon, Samir Kharsa, Ian Macdonald, Tarek Mdaka, Vijayraj Pillai, Mohamad Shakarchi, Kah Oon Teo
India: Madhusudan Daga, Akshay Jain, Shivram Kumar, Ajay Mitra, Sameer Patil, Keyur Shah

Far East

China: Jammy Chan, Jane Chen, Dennis Kao, Helen Mao, Sophia Sun, William Tang, Roland Wang, Betty Yang, Jesse Yang, Edward Zhang, Cao Yue, Chen Bo, Chen Yiying, Deng Yanming, Ge Gen, Li He, Liu Shuzhong, Liu Yuning, Ma Meiqin, Ma Qiang, Ma Yan, Peng Guomin, Qu Rong Hui, Wang Dong, Yu Yao, Yuan Lu, Wang Qi, Zheng Zhiguang, Wang Zhi Dong, Wang Zhizhi, Zhou Ming, Zu Baoming
Hong Kong: Y.H. Chan, Chan Siu Fun, Cynthia, K.C. Ho, Uve Kupka, Salina Lam, Ronald Leung, Henry Lo, Man Lui, C.Y. Lung, Aston Ng, Sam Ng, Lam Jin Ping, Daisy, Herbert Tsang Tat Nin, Anthony Tsang, Yu Kam Wing, Thomas Yu
Indonesia: Bambang Wijanarko, Djudju Tanuwidjaja, Leo Hadi Loe, Martana Marjana, Nursyahrini Dewi, Robinson Tampubolon
Japan: Satoru Arakawa, Kazumi Hirano, Osamu Ikeda, Yosuke Inoue, Kazuya Izumi, Yasutake Katabe, Kuniaki Kouno, Koji Matsuda, Taii Mazutani, Koji Miyake, Tetsuo Miyatake, Kazuo Nitta, Tomoyuki Okuchi, Kei Saito, Ryoichi Seki, Yoshiake Shinhara, Tadashi Sugano, Ayako Takashina, Akira Takehara, Itsuo Toshima, Koji Uwatoko, Fumio Yamamoto, Noriko Yamanaka, Shinza Yamano, Kenichi Yamashita
Singapore: Albert Cheng
South Korea: Sun-Yeul Hong, J.O. Kim, C.I. Moon
Thailand: Chalee Asavanant, Pichait Palanugool, Pisit Palanugool, Ratawong Pasawongse, Surachai Rochanakeekajon, Vichai Saengcharoentrakul, Jitti Tangsithpakdi, Vorachai Tangsithpakdi, Chaikit Tantikarn, Somphong Vajirakaphan

Africa

South Africa: Nicola Barkway, Johan Botha, Peter Bouwer, Howard Craig, Tom Davel, Chris Horsley, Steven Nathan, Mark Pool, John Reid, Thero Setiloane, Debbie Thomson

Australia

Australia: Cameron Alexander, Cathy Anza, Chantel Conchei, Tyson Cross, Ron Currie, Sonya Danaher, Lynda Djohan, Jim Fletcher, Jade Foo, Alan Frampton, Kendall Glossop, Edward Harbuz, David Harpur, Richard Hayes, Jackie Hitchens, Noel Holly, Matthew Holmes, Tina Kircher, Vijay Kumar, Alexandra Lucchesi, Nigel Moffatt, Dan Morrison, Peter Schenk, Tim Spencer, Bron Sucheki, Ian Tait, James Voon, David Woodford

CIS

Russian Federation: Nicolay Alpatov, Aleksey Batuev, Vlaislav Feokstikov, Vladimir Glukhov, Sergey Grudev, Olga Izbash, Yury Kalmykov, Aleksey Khan, Maria Konstantinova, Alexander Kosman, Andrey Kruglikov, Alexander Maltsev, Konstantin Mikhaltchuk, Andrey Pikanovskij, Sergey Pirko, Elena Rodicheva, Vladimir Rybkin, Roman Schetinskij, Alexander Shubabov, Gennady Skrobkin, Dmitri Smirnov, Vladimir Tarankov
Kazakhstan: Timur Alimbekov, Zhasulan Nakupov

Perspective on content

In having to deal with so many entities, especially in those countries where English is not the national language, some miscommunication may have inadvertently arisen.

While most dates are based on official records, a few rely on the memory of long-serving employees and may not be entirely accurate.

Grendon International Research Pty Ltd

The website is compiled and managed by Grendon International Research Pty Ltd (GIR).

GIR was established in 1989 in Fremantle, Western Australia, by Nigel and Brigida Desebrock.

Apart from acting as a consultant within the gold industry, GIR has published standard reference books, including Gold Refiners & Bars Worldwide (1991), The Industry Catalogue of Gold Bars Worldwide (1998), The Industry Catalogue of Gold Bullion Coins (1999) and An Introduction to the Indian Gold Market (2002).

Nigel Desebrock has been associated with the gold industry for more than 30 years. He previously worked for International Gold Corporation, the gold marketing arm of the Chamber of Mines of South Africa in London and Johannesburg, where he became Manager, Investment Division (Worldwide), and for Gold Corporation (which included The Perth Mint and Australian Gold Refineries), where he became a Board Director and Managing Director of GoldCorp Australia.

Grendon International Research

Industry Collection

Although GIR has established the website as a stand alone project, it is closely associated with The Industry Collection of Gold Bars Worldwide, which is the source of many of the bar photographs used on the website.

The Industry Collection was established in 1993 by N.M. Rothschild & Sons (Australia) Limited as the Custodian, and GIR as the Curator. The collection currently contains over 1,000 bars from 135 manufacturers and issuers in 35 countries. The Perth Mint has been the Official Location since 2003, and the Custodian since 2005.