GDAS

Promotion of responsible practices and standards for the post-mining gold industry and of the participants adopting them; providing an online searchable directory of post-mining gold industry participants, namely, dealers, retailers, wholesalers, distributors, refiners, fabricators, and manufacturers of goods made from or incorporating gold, qualified under a responsible practices framework for the gold industry; maintaining and publishing a directory of qualified post-mining gold industry participants; providing business information, namely, information identifying post-mining gold industry participants that have qualified under a responsible practices framework for the gold industry; promoting the goods and services of qualified post-mining gold industry participants to the trade and to consumers; business auditing, namely, review of post-mining gold industry participants for conformity with a responsible practices framework for the gold industry.

Education and publication in the field of responsible practices and standards for the post-mining gold industry; publication of standards, guidelines, and instructional materials in the field of responsible practices in the gold Industry; providing information in the field of criteria for qualification of post-mining gold industry participants, namely, dealers, retailers, wholesalers, distributors, refiners, fabricators, and manufacturers of goods made from or incorporating gold, under a responsible practices framework for the gold industry; conducting assessments and examinations of post-mining gold industry participants to determine conformity with a responsible practices framework for the gold industry.

Development and promotion of responsible practices and standards for the post-mining gold industry; development of voluntary standards and a framework of best practices for the gold industry; development of standards, criteria, and methodologies for evaluating whether post-mining gold industry participants, namely, dealers, retailers, wholesalers, distributors, refiners, fabricators, and manufacturers of goods made from or incorporating gold, conform to a responsible practices framework for the gold industry; testing, analysis, and evaluation of the services and business practices of post-mining gold industry participants to determine conformity with a responsible practices framework for the gold industry; quality assurance services in the field of conformity of post-mining gold industry participants with a responsible practices framework for the gold industry.