Aurix Academy of Precious Metals
There's no examined qualification in precious metals. We're building one.
Twenty-four weeks, twelve modules, from the ore body to the making charge. Assessed, examined, and honest about what it is — a professional development credential, not a degree.
Why nobody has done this
Seats on the LBMA's Loco London course — the most serious precious-metals training we could find, at £700 a day.
Learners on Duke University's free gold course, taught by one of the field's leading academics on the subject.
What someone currently charges for a "Postgraduate Certificate in Precious Metals". No awarding body. No examination.
Accredited qualifications anywhere in the world whose subject is precious metals as a market. We looked in eleven countries.
Figures checked 24 August 2026 against LBMA and Coursera listings and a live UK provider page.
Four ways in
Start free. Stop wherever you like.
Each tier is a real exit point with its own award. The Certificate's fee comes off the Diploma price if you carry on, so walking the whole ladder never costs more than the top of it.
Foundation
Free 8 hours
Hallmarks and HUID, purity testing, making charges, dealer spreads, buyback terms. Everything a buyer gets wrong.
All eight lessons, free →Certificate
$395 12 weeks
Modules 1–6. The metal itself, where it comes from, how you prove it, and what you are really paying for it.
Cohort 01 · not yet openProfessional Diploma
$1,295 24 weeks
All twelve modules, a professional practice portfolio, and a recorded oral viva with a named external examiner.
Cohort 01 · not yet openAdvanced Diploma
$1,195 +24 weeks
One specialist track — assay, retail and lending, markets, or compliance — plus an applied dissertation.
Opens after Tier 2Prices are indicative for cohort 01 and include every assessment. Aurix Premium subscribers take 20% off each paid tier. Sold on the web only — the app does not carry it.
Outcomes
What you'll actually be able to do
Not "understand the gold market". Specific, testable things you can do on a Monday morning.
Design a test protocol — and say what it still can't rule out
Why XRF cannot see a tungsten core. Why density alone cannot either. What the two together cost you, and how long they take.
Normalise any three offers to price per gram of fine metal
Making charges, wastage, GST, duty and buyback deductions converted into one number you can put side by side.
Take a landed retail price back to the London benchmark
Every component named: benchmark, duty, local premium, fabrication, distribution, margin, tax.
Test a published forecast against a naive benchmark
And state what would have to be true for it to be skilful. Most of them do not survive the test.
Trace one transaction's tax, reporting and AML obligations
Across two jurisdictions — and name the one that is most often missed.
Build a due-diligence file that would survive an audit
Against the OECD five-step framework, with recycled gold treated as the risk it actually is.
Assessment
Anyone can sell you a PDF. We make you defend it.
Every candidate verifies their identity at enrolment, submits twelve graded assignments, sits a randomised written examination, builds a professional practice portfolio — and then talks an examiner through it, on camera, for half an hour.
The viva is a mandatory pass. It is also the reason an employer can take this seriously without taking our word for it.
Built for
- Jewellers and retail staff who sell metal every day and were never taught it
- Gold-loan and pawn appraisers who need something examined to put in front of an employer
- Assaying and hallmarking centre staff — India's regulator requires training and names no provider
- Dealers, refinery and vault staff, and the compliance officers behind them
- Wealth managers and family-office analysts who field the question and cannot answer it
- Serious private owners who intend to hold metal for a long time
Not for
- Anyone looking for trade signals, entry points or price targets. We do not do those.
- Anyone who wants an academic degree. This is a professional credential and says so.
- Anyone expecting a certificate for watching videos. There is an examiner at the end.
Cohort 01 · registration not yet open
Tell us which module you want first.
We are producing this one cohort at a time, and we build what people actually ask for. Pick the modules you would turn up for and we will tell you when they are scheduled. No payment, no obligation.
Or leave an address and we will tell you when the free Foundation goes live:
One email when the Foundation opens. Nothing else, ever.