Division 03
Metals & Minerals
Refined metal, concentrate and salt into smelters, refiners, mills and fabricators — where provenance is now as commercially consequential as assay.
Precious metals
Gold, silver and platinum group metals in refined form, traded only where origin, refiner accreditation and chain of custody can be evidenced. This is the most heavily screened book we run, and the one where we decline the most enquiries.
- Gold — bars & grain
- Silver — bars & grain
- Platinum
- Palladium
- Rhodium
- Accreditation
- LBMA Good Delivery or equivalent refiner accreditation, with assay certificate per lot.
- Due diligence
- Enhanced due diligence and responsible sourcing review completed before any indication is given. Enquiries without evidenced provenance are not progressed.
- Movement
- Carried by specialist valuables operators — Brink’s, Ferrari Group and Loomis — under vaulted chain of custody, with armoured collection and delivery, dual control at every handover and all-risks cover written to consignment value. See Logistics.
Base & battery metals
LME-referenced base metals and the battery-chain metals, in whichever form the receiving plant takes — cathode, ingot, billet, briquette, concentrate or salt. Nickel and cobalt in particular are bought as chemistry, not as metal, and we quote accordingly.
- Aluminium — P1020, billet, slab, alloy
- Copper — Grade A cathode, rod, concentrate
- Zinc — SHG, concentrate
- Nickel — briquette, cathode, ferronickel, NPI, sulphate
- Cobalt — cathode, hydroxide, sulphate
- Lithium — carbonate, hydroxide, spodumene
- Lead — refined, concentrate
- Pricing basis
- LME cash or three-month settlement plus premium for refined metal; index-referenced for concentrates and salts.
- Quality
- Assay certificate per lot from an accredited laboratory. Independent inspection at load and discharge coordinated as standard.
- Delivery
- Containerised or bulk, with LME-warranted warehouse transfers where applicable.
Ferrous & industrial minerals
Iron ore into mills, finished steel into fabricators, contractors and distributors, and apatite concentrate into phosphoric acid and fertiliser production. Grade equivalence across EN, ASTM and JIS is confirmed in writing before order placement — the single most common cause of a rejected steel cargo.
- Iron ore fines
- Lump & pellet
- Rebar
- Wire rod
- Billet
- HRC / CRC / HDG
- Plate
- Welded & seamless pipe
- Apatite concentrate
- Iron ore
- Index-referenced to Platts or Metal Bulletin with an agreed moisture and penalty schedule. Capesize and Supramax stems.
- Steel
- Supplied against mill test certificate per heat, to EN, ASTM or JIS grade as specified.
- Apatite concentrate
- P₂O₅, moisture, MgO, Fe₂O₃, Al₂O₃ and cadmium reported per shipment. Low-cadmium grades are material for EU-destined product under fertiliser regulation limits.
- Related supply
- Apatite connects directly to our fertiliser slate — rock and finished product can be structured as one trade.
Enquiries
Every enquiry is answered by a trader.
Send the product, quantity, delivery basis, destination and timing. We revert with availability, an indication and the documentation that accompanies it. Specifications are released once we know who we are speaking with.