The Perth Mint opened in 1899 as a branch of Britain's Royal Mint, established specifically to turn the output of Western Australia's Kalgoorlie goldfields into coin — giving it a refining pedigree that predates its now-famous Kangaroo, Kookaburra, and Lunar coin programs by decades. Its refinery earned LBMA Good Delivery accreditation in 1987, and from 1995 onward absorbed four separate Australian LBMA-accredited refiners — Australian Gold Refineries, Johnson Matthey (Australia), Golden West Refining, and Harringtons Metallurgists — consolidating their capacity and accreditation lineage into one operation.
The Perth Mint is the only Australian refiner accredited by the LBMA for both gold and silver, and holds a genuinely rare distinction: accreditation from all five of the world's major gold exchanges (LBMA, COMEX, SGE, TOCOM, and DMCC), a credential set very few refiners worldwide can match. For a buyer who already knows the Perth Mint through its coin programs, its bar business carries the same institutional weight — a government-backed Australian mint with over a century of refining experience behind every bar.
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Start tracking freeYes — the same refinery that's operated since 1899 produces both the Mint's bullion bars and its coin programs like the Kangaroo, Kookaburra, and Lunar series.
All five major global exchanges — LBMA, COMEX, SGE, TOCOM, and DMCC — a credential set very few refiners worldwide hold.
Yes — from 1995 onward, it consolidated four separate LBMA-accredited Australian refiners (including the Australian branch of Johnson Matthey) into its own operation.