Name: Mining Indaba
Start: 2027-02-08T10:30:00+02:00
End: 2027-02-11T15:30:00+02:00
Location: CTICC

Ruth Crowell

CEO LBMA

In her tenure as CEO of LBMA, Ruth was responsible for the governance, commercial and transparency overhaul of the LBMA and the Loco London precious metals market. Her experience as a human rights expert helped her successful creation of the LBMA’s Responsible Sourcing Programme, which covers all Good Delivery Refiners processing 92% of gold mined annually. Ruth is also a Non-Executive Director for Wilton Park (Executive Agency of the UK FCDO). She also continues to serve as Vice Chair of the OECD Multi-Stakeholder Governance Group for Responsible Minerals.

2026 Agenda Sessions

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?

Wednesday 11 February 13:50 - 14:20 Table Mountain Stage (CTICC1 - Ground Floor - Exhibition Hall)

Add to calendar 02/11/2026 13:50 02/11/2026 14:20 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? Table Mountain Stage (CTICC1 - Ground Floor - Exhibition Hall) Africa/Johannesburg

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