About
The project behind
The Goldza Open Source project publishes one honest, timestamped number for the metal, the tools to work out what your own gold is worth, and straight journalism on buying and selling it here. It buys no gold and sells no gold.
What we publish
The live board carries the rand gold price per gram for every karat, worked from the spot feed and timestamped. On top of it sit the tools, a calculator for any weight, a live hallmark decoder, and live Krugerrand melt values. And around the numbers, the knowledge: why the price is really a rand story, how to check a buyer is legitimate, and what SA buyers actually pay.
What this project is, and is not
Most South African gold pages are either a decade-old widget or a shopfront with a price bolted on. Goldza publishes the arithmetic and shows its working. The site itself holds no stock and quotes no buying rate, so it can publish a straight number and name the gap that a shopfront exists to hide.
What you should know about who publishes this
Goldza sells no gold and buys no gold. There is no shop, no stock, no advertising and no sponsored placement, and nobody can buy their way onto a page. Those are statements about this site, and they are true of it.
What we do not claim is to be independent of the precious metals trade. The people behind Goldza work in it. That is why the site does not rank buyers, does not run a directory, does not tell you who to sell to, and does not name a business as better than another. It publishes the arithmetic and the tests, so that you can apply them yourself to whoever is in front of you rather than take our word for anything.
If that ever changes, if this site ever recommends a buyer or carries a commercial arrangement with one, it will say so on the page where it does it, in plain words, and this section will be rewritten first.
How we work, and when we are wrong
Every figure is live, computed from public arithmetic, or attributed to a named source; the full method is on the methodology page. The Goldza Project Team writes and reviews the material. When we get something wrong we fix it in the open and log it under corrections. Prices are data, not financial advice, and Goldza is not a licensed financial services provider.
The Goldza Project Team