About the magazine
One metal, reported properly.
Who publishes TheGoldMagazine, how stories are sourced and verified, what we refuse to publish, and how to reach the desk with a correction or a tip.
Gold is one of the most written-about and least well-reported subjects in financial media. It attracts two kinds of coverage: promotional material dressed as analysis, and cultural writing that treats the metal as a symbol rather than a commodity with a supply chain. TheGoldMagazine exists because there is a third option — patient, document-led journalism about how gold is mined, refined, priced, held and worked.
What we cover
We run 6 desks and currently publish 20 long-form investigations, each written to be read start to finish rather than skimmed. The history desk works from mint and treaty records. The industry desk covers refining, assay and chain of custody. The markets desk covers the official sector and price formation. The craft desk reports from the bench. The mining desk reports from pits and processing sites, mostly in the artisanal sector.
How we source
A claim gets into a story when it can be traced to something a reader could check: an archive document, a published reserve figure, a regulatory filing, an assay certificate, or a named person who saw it happen. Where the record is thin, we say so in the sentence itself. Estimates are labelled as estimates, ranges are given as ranges, and we do not launder uncertainty through confident prose.
We interview people on the record where possible. Anonymity is granted only where identification carries a real professional or physical risk — common in artisanal mining reporting — and the reason is stated in the piece.
What we refuse to publish
- Price forecasts, targets and trading recommendations.
- Sponsored articles, advertorial and affiliate links inside editorial text.
- Dealer marketing copy, however well written.
- Claims about supply, demand or reserves that no public dataset or named source supports.
Independence and conflicts
The magazine takes no funding from bullion dealers, refiners, miners or asset managers, and it sells no gold products. Contributors disclose any holding or commercial relationship that touches a story they are assigned, and are reassigned where the conflict cannot be managed by disclosure alone.
Corrections and accountability
Journalism that never corrects itself is marketing. Substantive errors are fixed in place with a dated note attached to the article, and the original claim is described rather than erased. Our editorial standards set out the whole process, and our financial disclaimer states plainly what this publication is not.
Questions readers ask
Who publishes TheGoldMagazine?
TheGoldMagazine is an independent editorial publication covering gold as a monetary, industrial and cultural subject. It is not owned by, funded by, or affiliated with any bullion dealer, mining company, refinery, exchange or asset manager, and it does not sell gold in any form.
Does TheGoldMagazine give investment advice?
No. Nothing published here is investment, tax or legal advice, and we do not publish price targets, forecasts or buy and sell recommendations. Our markets coverage explains mechanisms and documented behaviour — such as central bank reserve purchases — rather than telling readers what to do with their money.
How are articles sourced and verified?
Every factual claim traces to a primary source: mint and archive records, central bank statements and reserve data, refinery and assay documentation, regulatory filings, or first-hand field reporting. Where a claim rests on a single source or on estimation, the article says so in the text rather than in a footnote nobody reads.
How do you handle corrections?
Substantive errors are corrected in place with a dated correction note appended to the article. Trivial fixes such as typography are made silently. We do not quietly delete or rewrite published claims. The full policy lives in our editorial standards document.
Do you accept sponsored content or affiliate links?
No. We publish no sponsored articles, no advertorial, no affiliate links and no paid placements inside editorial text. If that ever changes, disclosure would appear at the top of the affected piece, not in small print.
Can I pitch a story or send a tip?
Yes. Pitches should identify the desk they belong to, the documents or access that make the story reportable, and any conflict of interest. We do not pay for information, and we do not publish material obtained by misrepresentation.