2026 Agenda

Name: Mining Indaba
Start: 2027-02-08
End: 2027-02-11
Location: CTICC

11 Feb 2026

13:50

Disruptive Discussions

Table Mountain Stage (CTICC1 - Ground Floor - Exhibition Hall)

Leadership

Stronger together in gold: Building Africa’s responsible refining partnerships

Gold is no longer governed by a single centre of gravity. As producer countries move to retain value, strengthen oversight, and build domestic refining capacity, long-standing market standards are being tested, reinterpreted, and, in some cases, rewritten.

This fireside brings together the custodians of global gold standards, legacy refining institutions, and emerging African market authorities to examine how credibility is defined, how trust is transferred, and what a modern gold rulebook must look like in a world of shifting power.

It also showcases the true power of partnerships through a recent strategic collaboration between Rand Refinery and Ghana’s Gold Coast Refinery, working alongside GoldBod to deepen local beneficiation, strengthen technical capability, and raise responsible sourcing standards across the gold value chain

The conversation asks a simple but consequential question: who sets the rules of the gold market now - and who should?