Raw gold in.
Certified gold out.
We refine gold to internationally recognised purity standards. Every engagement is documented, licensed, and traceable from intake to delivery.
Gold refining at Maxmetal serves three types of clients.
Find your situation.
Miners & Small-Scale Dealers
You have raw gold and you need certified, sellable output.
Whether you are an artisanal miner bringing your first consignment or a dealer consolidating material from multiple sources, Maxmetal refines your gold to a certified purity specification and gives you documentation that protects your position in any sale.
Start with a ConsignmentExport Companies & Commercial Buyers
You need refined gold with documentation your destination market will clear.
Maxmetal's refinery certificates are produced to the standard that international buyers, export agencies, and financial counterparties require, with the license reference, methodology, and chain-of-custody records that destination market compliance frameworks ask for.
Discuss Your RequirementsConsolidators & Institutional Sellers
You are handling gold from multiple sources and need a single, certified output.
We refine and certify consolidated gold consignments, producing a unified, documented output from multiple source lots with full accounting of input weight, processing, and certified output. One clean result from one accountable operation.
Contact Our TeamGold refining is the process that turns raw material into a certified, tradeable asset.
Raw gold, whether it comes from an artisanal mine, a consolidated dealer lot, or a commercial mining operation, is not yet a tradeable commodity in the sense that a serious buyer requires. It contains impurities. Its exact purity is not yet verified. Without a certified result from a licensed refinery, its value in the market is whatever the buyer decides to offer, and you have no documented basis to negotiate from.
Gold refining changes that. The process takes your raw material, applies a controlled, documented methodology to separate gold from impurities, and produces an output at a specified purity level, accompanied by a certificate that states exactly what was done, exactly what the result is, and exactly who is accountable for that result.
At Maxmetal, that certificate is issued under our active DGSM mineral refinery license. The purity figure on it is the purity figure produced by our certified methodology, not an estimate, not a round number, not a figure adjusted for commercial convenience. It is the result. And it is yours to take into any market, to any buyer, without apology.
What this means in practice is that a miner who walks into Maxmetal with raw gold and walks out with a Maxmetal refinery certificate has transformed their material from a quantity of uncertain value into a documented, certified asset with a defensible market price. That transformation is the service.
- Input Formats Accepted
- Raw gold grain, nuggets, gold dust, doré bars, alluvial gold, consolidated dealer lots
- Output Formats Available
- Refined gold grain, cast bars, or as specified by client requirement at intake
- Purity Range
- Refined to agreed purity specification, confirmed at intake based on input material and client requirement
- Minimum Consignment
- Confirmed at intake consultation, we work with both small-scale and large commercial consignments
- Documentation Produced
- Refinery certificate with purity specification, methodology, weight reconciliation, chain-of-custody reference, DGSM license reference, and date of issue
- Licensing
- Active DGSM Mineral Refinery License, independently verifiable
- Turnaround
- Confirmed at intake based on consignment specifics and current schedule
What happens from the moment your consignment arrives.
Every gold refining engagement at Maxmetal follows a documented process. Nothing happens to your gold that is not recorded, and nothing is finalised until the result has been verified internally against our quality standard.
Your gold is received, weighed, and formally documented.
At intake, your consignment is weighed on certified scales, described in detail, and formally recorded with the date, time, your name, and the intake condition of the material. You receive a signed, dated intake receipt before anything moves to the next stage.
This receipt is the anchor of your chain-of-custody record. It is the document that connects everything that follows back to what you brought in.
We test your raw material before refining begins.
A pre-refinery assay establishes the exact composition of your material, the gold content, the impurity profile, and the baseline from which your refined output will be calculated. This result is documented and shared with you before refining begins.
You know what you brought in. You know what we are working with. There is no ambiguity before the process starts.
Your material is refined to the agreed purity specification.
The refining process separates gold from impurities using our certified methodology. Output weight and purity are measured and recorded at each stage of the process, not just at the end. The difference between the input weight and the output weight is accounted for completely. There are no unexplained losses.
The refined output is tested and verified before certification.
Once refining is complete, the output is tested independently of the refining process to confirm that the purity achieved matches the specification. This verification step is the checkpoint that stands between the refining process and the certificate. We do not issue a certificate that the verification step has not confirmed.
Your refined gold and your documentation are returned to you.
Your refined output is presented alongside your complete refinery certificate, specifying the input weight, the output weight, the certified purity, the methodology applied, the chain-of-custody reference, and our DGSM license reference. You leave with a certified asset and a paper trail that tells its complete story.
The Maxmetal refinery certificate.
What it contains and why it travels.
A Maxmetal gold refinery certificate is not a receipt. It is a formal, signed document issued under our active DGSM mineral refinery license, produced to the standard that buyers in Uganda and in international markets require as evidence of verified gold content and legitimate chain of custody.
Every certificate we issue contains the same core elements, because those elements are what the market requires, not what we decided to include.
Client name and contact details
The legal identity of the consignment owner as recorded at intake.
Consignment reference number
The chain-of-custody identifier that connects this certificate to every document produced during the engagement.
Input specification
The weight and initial composition of the raw material as established by the pre-refinery assay.
Refining methodology
The specific process applied to the material, documented so that it can be reviewed, audited, or independently verified.
Output weight
The certified weight of the refined gold output, measured on certified scales after refining is complete.
Certified purity
The gold content of the refined output expressed as a percentage or fineness figure, confirmed by post-refinery testing.
DGSM license reference
Our active mineral refinery license number, independently verifiable through Uganda's Mining Cadastre and Registry System.
Date of issue and authorising signature
The date the certificate was produced and the signature of the Maxmetal authorised signatory responsible for the result.
This is the document your buyer will receive. It is the document your export agency will reference. It is the document your financial counterparty will file. It is produced to be complete on its face, so that the person reading it has everything they need without having to call us for context.
If your buyer has a specific documentation format or additional field requirement, tell us at intake. We confirm whether it can be accommodated before the process begins.
You brought in a weight.
You will receive a weight.
We account for everything in between.
In any refining process, there is a difference between the weight of the raw material brought in and the weight of the refined gold that comes out. This is not a discrepancy. It is an expected and documented result of the refining process, the removal of impurities, the separation of non-gold material, the physical realities of processing.
What makes Maxmetal's process accountable is not that this difference does not exist. It is that every gram of it is explained. At intake, your material is weighed and its composition assessed. At the end of refining, your output is weighed and its purity verified. The difference between those two numbers, the processing margin, is documented completely and provided to you in your weight reconciliation report.
There are no unexplained losses in a Maxmetal engagement. If the numbers in your reconciliation report raise a question, we answer it. With the documentation. Not with a verbal explanation.
The reconciliation report is produced as part of your standard documentation package, not as a separate request, not as something we produce only when a client asks for it. It is part of what you receive because it is part of what you are entitled to know.
Full reconciliation report included in your documentation package.
The questions we hear most often.
Answered directly.
No. We work with consignments at all scales, from a single artisanal miner's output to large commercial lots. The documentation and process standards are identical regardless of quantity. Minimum consignment specifics are confirmed at your intake consultation. If you are unsure whether what you have qualifies, call us before you come in. We will give you a straight answer.
Your certificate is produced by a two-step process: a pre-refinery assay that establishes what you brought in, followed by post-refinery verification that confirms what the refining produced. The purity figure reflects the result of the verification step, not the refining step alone. If you want to understand exactly how that figure was produced, we walk you through the methodology. Every number on a Maxmetal certificate has a documented origin.
Smelting consolidates and melts gold material into a homogeneous form, it is a processing step that is often a precursor to refining or is used for consolidation purposes. Refining goes further: it separates gold from impurities and produces a certified purity output. Most clients who need a tradeable, certifiable result need refining. If you are not sure which service applies to your material, contact us before you come in and we will advise you based on what you have.
Our certificates are issued under an active DGSM mineral refinery license, which is verifiable through Uganda's Mining Cadastre and Registry System. If your buyer is operating in Uganda or in international markets that accept Ugandan DGSM-licensed refinery documentation, our certificate meets their requirement. If your buyer has a specific documentation standard or destination market requirement, tell us before we begin. We confirm whether we can meet it, and if we cannot, we tell you before your consignment enters our process.
Turnaround time depends on the consignment specifics, the service required, and our current schedule. We confirm expected turnaround at intake before you commit. If you have an export deadline or a time-sensitive commercial situation, tell us at first contact. We will give you an honest answer about whether your timeline is achievable, not the answer that gets you through the door.
If your result raises a question, you raise it with us. We provide the full methodology documentation and walk through how the figure was produced. If you believe there is an error in our process, we have a formal review procedure. What we do not do is produce a result and then become unreachable. Your result has a documented origin. Every question it raises has a documented answer.
Every gold refining engagement is conducted under active DGSM licensing and full regulatory compliance.
Maxmetal holds an active mineral refinery license from Uganda's Directorate of Geological Survey and Mines. Our license reference is printed on every certificate we issue and is independently verifiable. If your due diligence requires documentation of our regulatory standing before you proceed, we provide it on request.
View Our Compliance & LicensingGold refining is often one step in a larger process.
Assaying Services
Not sure what purity your gold is before you decide what to do with it? An assay gives you a certified result you can act on, before any refining decision is made.
See Assaying ServicesGold Smelting
If your material needs consolidation before refining, our smelting service handles that step under the same chain-of-custody documentation as the refining process.
See Gold SmeltingTransaction Handling
Once your gold is refined and certified, we can facilitate the trade transaction, handling the commercial process so your deal moves on verified, documented terms.
See Transaction HandlingYour gold leaves Maxmetal
certified, documented,
and worth exactly what it is.
The first step is a conversation about your consignment. Tell us what you have, your approximate quantity, and what you need the output for. We will confirm the process, the timeline, and what to expect, before you commit to anything.