LBMA Media Centre

As part of the LBMA’s Voices Project, Michele interviews Stewart Pixley, about his experiences of working in the family bullion brokerage business that was originally set up in 1852 by his great-grandfather in partnership with Henry Haggard.  Read More

Cameroon officially exports little gold and has no major gold mines. But for generations, family miners have foraged for gold flecks with shovel and pan. Such community mining differs from the co-operatives and small-scale industrial mines usually described as artisanal mining.  Read More

“If you were really great and powerful, you’d keep your promises!” cries Dorothy, stamping her foot in outrage in MGM’s classic 1939 movie, The Wizard of Oz. But the man behind the curtain is just a man. There is no other wizard but him. And so there is, in fact, no wizard at all.  Read More

The commencement of the monetary tightening phase by the US Federal Reserve in December did little to sooth debate about the implications of rising US rates on the future price of gold.  Read More

Editorial Comment By Grant Angwin, LBMA Chairman and President, Asahi Refining  Read More

Back in January, analysts participating in the LBMA’s Annual Forecast Survey submitted their usual forecasts predicting their outlook for precious metal prices in 2016.   Read More

The latest in the series of articles in the LBMA’s Voices Project, Michele interviews John Wolff about his career spanning five decades, including his family’s close association with the London Metal Exchange and his involvement with the bullion market and the establishment of the LBMA.  Read More

Almost a decade on from the global financial crisis, central banks around the world continue to resort to ever more unconventional monetary policies in order to stimulate economic growth. Having pursued successive rounds of quantitative easing, fiscal stimulus and interest rate cuts, several major economies now have nominal interest rates at zero or even in negative territory.   Read More

Why did China’s state-owned alumina and aluminium giant, Aluminum Corporation of China (Chinalco), borrow more than 10 tonnes of gold from a commercial bank in June? The deal illustrates the highly evolved nature of China’s gold lease market, as well as the challenges facing more traditional gold leasing and the constriction of other credit channels.   Read More

Alchemist 82 is now available online.  Read More