Today lbma own and manage the good delivery lists for both gold and silver.
London good delivery gold bar.
A good delivery bar is a gold or silver bar which meets the rules and regulations set by the london bullion market association lbma a global authority for precious metal.
It also puts forth requirements for listing on the lbma good delivery list of approved refineries.
400 oz have a fineness or gold content of at least 995 0 parts per thousand fine gold.
This bullion is commodity gold and is handled as such in the vaults where the bars are stored.
In the jp morgan vault in london iau currently holds 7 265 good delivery gold bars 2 907 million ounces which is 90 tonnes.
London good delivery gold london good delivery silver a primary function of the london bullion market association lbma is facilitating the international distribution and acceptability of their silver bars.
London good delivery gold bars c.
The good delivery specification is a set of rules issued by the london bullion market association lbma describing the physical characteristics of gold and silver bars used in settlement in the wholesale london bullion market.
This london good delivery bar of bullion weighs 400 troy ounces about 12 4 kilograms and is about eleven inches long.
That leave only 353 tonnes in the london vaults that is not at the bank of england not in the spdr gold trust and not in the ishares gold trust.
In 1750 the bank of england set up the london good delivery list for gold which formally recognised those refineries which produced gold bars to the required standard.
London good delivery lgd bars contain approximately 400 troy ounces 12 5 kg of fine gold.