ita_gold_refinerscommodityOfficial surveyAuthoritative

ITA gold-refiner roster (3TG)

International Trade Administration (US DOC) + USGS

global gold-bullion refiners: 262 refiners + 2 smelters (Nov 2025) with country, city, operator + ownership; no capacity or accreditation status

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How it's published

Feed (what to expect)

Annual free ITA PDF; re-vendor + rerun scripts/build_ita_gold_refiners.py to refresh.

Cadence: annual (US Commerce conflict-minerals series)
Access: free PDF (trade.gov)
Format: vendored PDF -> committed JSONL (pdfplumber word-cluster, deterministic)
Licence: public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. 105)
Vintage: 2025
Upstream: —

License-clean alternative to the proprietary LBMA Good Delivery List; per-refiner capacity + accreditation stay procurement-gated (LBMA/LPPM/DMCC/RMI).

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Authority tier: Official survey
Provenance: Authoritative
Canonicality: tier 1
Primary for: —
Contributes IDs: —
Name-block matching: excluded
Reconcile profile: default (tier 1)

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