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Gold doré margin calculator
Gold doré price per kilogram, a worked example
On 29 July 2026, with spot at $130,700 per kilogram.
A ten kilogram consignment of doré assaying at 98.5 percent and delivered at $95,000 per kilogram fine would have cost $935,750.
Sold at nine percent below spot it realises $1,171,529.
This would have left a net margin of about $233,000 over fourteen days from the start of the process in Kenya to the final assay in Dubai.
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Why gold doré trades at discount to LBMA spot
Published figures put the doré discount at five to ten percent. That describes a refinery buying from a producing mine, where capital, instrument and delivery are settled in advance.
Our market is different. A seller with no export licence and no refinery relationship is selling gold he cannot otherwise convert, and the discount reflects that position rather than the quality of the metal.
The seller is not a middleman. He is a delegate, sent and funded by a mining community, sometimes by several pooled together, and what he is paid returns to them.
The price of gold has multiplied in recent years; the cost of digging it out by hand has not. A wide discount still leaves that community considerably better off than it was.
Buyers often read a deep discount as a fraud signal. Sometimes it is. More often it is a seller with no route to market, and from outside the two look the same.
What the delivered price already contains
The figure you are quoted per kilogram is not a mine gate price.
It carries the seller's costs, the royalties and export duty payable in the country of origin, freight, insurance, and the commission that pays every party who brought the transaction together.
That commission runs between three and five thousand dollars per kilogram, divided across all parties on both sides. It does not exceed five. Where it sits at the upper end, the difference is more often absorbed by the seller than added to your price. Ours is a share of it.
Whatever it is set at, it is locked when the contract is signed and it does not move for the duration.
It does not rise if the transaction takes three weeks instead of two. That matters more than the amount.
The most common structural failure in this market is an intermediary whose income grows the longer a transaction stays open. Ours does not.
Settlement
Settlement is against the final assay at your refinery. If the metal comes in below the stated purity, the price falls with it. You do not pay for gold you did not receive, which removes the most common single loss in this market.
Capital
Capital is committed for around fourteen days, from collateral to settlement. Collateral is ten percent and the balance settles against the assay, but the full amount must be available throughout. It is capital deployed whether or not it has moved.
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The margin is per transaction. It is not an annual rate and we will not present it as one. The limit on repeating it is not how quickly a transaction runs; it is how often a vetted seller with stock and a buyer with funds arrive at the same moment. Between transactions, capital eams nothing.
Completion
The remaining variable is completion. Most transactions in this market do not complete. That is the risk this structure exists to address, and it is the reason the arithmetic above is worth anything at all.
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Three things that determine your margin
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Position
We have published the arithmetic rather than a headline, including the costs that reduce the margin and the items it does not cover. That is deliberate. A number without its workings is a pitch, and this market has enough of those.
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We are not selling the figure at the top of this page. We are selling the structure that makes it reachable, which is a different thing and a harder one.
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If you have been given a quote, bring it to us and we will tell you plainly what we make of it, including when we believe it is not worth pursuing.
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