Precious Metals

A note on our standards. If a requirement here seems demanding, it is not distrust and it is not difficulty for its own sake. Magister Operis and its institutional partners apply the same standards a bank, a top accounting firm, and a serious law firm apply to the same transaction — because meeting that standard early is the fastest way to close, and resisting it is the slowest.

COMMODITY: Precious Metals

QUANTITY: However many kilograms (KG) or metric tons (MT) gets the ball rolling. The more the better!

CONTRACT DURATION: As agreed

DESTINATION: As agreed

PRICE: Fixed Price per kilogram/metric ton or Net Discount off LBMA.

POF: As agreed

MODE: While unrefined metal is more complicated... metal under bank SKR could be as simple as SWIFT MT600 vs. MT103 or ledger to ledger transaction.

PAYMENT: Wire Transfer to Seller's account or ledger-to-ledger

Magister Operis™ has absolutely direct relationships with multiple buyers of precious metals:

Buyer #1

• Absolutely direct.
• Located in the area of Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
• Jewelers that Magister Operis has intimately known for over 30 years.
• Highly experienced internationally in retail custom jewelry and manufacturing.

• Owned three jewelry stores and two jewelry manufacturing operations in Eastern Europe.

• Their uncle owned the first CNC jewelry milling machine on the planet and was one of the largest precious stone cutters in Europe.

Buyer #2

• Absolutely direct.
• Known almost a decade.
• Located in New York City
• Commodities trader, private merchant banker, financier, venture capitalist, and wealth manager for numerous family offices.
• Has his own precious metals trading platform.
• As a petroleum trader is invested in shipping, refining, and storage. 
• As an iron trader is investing in mining and shipping. 
• Former Series 7 securities trader.
• Masters of Business Administration (MBA) degree from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
• Will only engage with the Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO) of the metal and/or attorney/advocate.  
• Every quote (" ") on this page is his. 
• Unrefined gold needs to be delived to gold refineries in New York and/or London. 

Buyer #3

• Absolutely direct.
• Known for over a decade.
• One of the biggest precious metals refining/minting companies in the United States.
• Magister Operis works directly with the inhouse corporate attorney.
• Can purchase virtually unlimited amounts of precious metals.
• Unrefined gold can be delived to various gold refineries the company owns across the United States.

Buyer #4

• Absolutely direct
• Known since early 2017 and has engaged in HUNDREDS of hours of video calls with the principals.
• Positioned to purchase virtually unlimited amounts of precious metals with it's own assets combined with the backing of a top World bank in Zurich.
• Company's principals have executive backgrounds in top world banking and accounting. They consult for the top 10 world banks, top corporations, and various governments in regards to strategic investments. 
• The company's organization is supported by the boards of the top World banks and supported pro bono by some of the most elite accounting and law firms on the planet. 
• The organization uses purchased gold to collateralize major project funding that promotes socio-economic transformation that leads to making charity and population migration unnecessary.
• Can organize the payment of all taxes, insurance, and shipping from the top levels of governments down.
  • It's a seller's/miner's dream in regards to taxes, customs, logistics, and financial planning.
  • If desired.. buyer can help seller open an account in the transaction bank in Zurich so the funds are simply transferred ledger to ledger inside the bank. 
  • Can fund mining, commmunity, and/or national projects up to $€4 Billion each initially. 
  • Socio-economic projects can be strategically funded and people can be intelligently educated to perform in business.
• Without upfront written attestation from seller's credible attorney/advocate confirming the history and ownership of the metal... the buyer is simply not interested.
• Will only engage with the Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO) of the metal and/or attorney/advocate.  
• Professional email addresses only.
• Click Here to read a page dedicated to the buyer and its other capabilities.
• Unrefined gold needs to be delived to gold refineries in Switzerland. 

Buyer #5

• Absolutely direct
• Known since early 2014.
• Majority shareholder of a precious metals refinery in Dubai for unrefined/outdated purchases. 
• A principal in multiple corporations/operations in UK, USA, Dubai, Romania, and Switzerland. 
• Click Here for unrefined mined gold operations and notes. 

Buyer #6

• While Magister Operis was introduced to the buyer through a single intermediary, Magister Operis deals directly with the buyer. 
• Known since March 2021.
• Is a United Nations and Federal Reserve Bank registered mining company and mining consultant. 

SPECIAL NOTES:

While Magister Operis would love to close deals with you, please note that none of the buyers above are hobbyist gold buyers — the retired airline pilot who saved a million dollars to dabble in gold. They are highly experienced international principals in precious metals: among them, several are World Economic Forum participants, two own gold refineries, and several actively fund gold mining. They will not chase sellers, and most offers brought to them waste everyone’s time. They know the industry, and they treat an offer as serious only when it presents itself seriously. Most do not — they arrive through layered broker chains demanding an LOI before anything credible has been shown: no verified seller, no product, nothing in the league of the stated transaction size. For that reason, Magister Operis does not bring an offer to these buyers until there is strong indication of a credible seller in the league of the transaction. 

These buyers do not call Magister Operis asking if gold is for sale but they are each very happy to buy gold if the transaction is obviously reasonably simple to close. The ONLY reason why Magister Operis has and maintains relationships with most of these buyers is because of Magister Operis' website, background, as well as professional document production skills.

It is also important to note that most of these buyers will only engage with the actual Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO) of the metal and/or their attorney. While they are happy to protect reasonable commissions, they have zero interest in working through parties that know sellers but personally own nothing to sell. 

It is highly recommended and appreciated that you carefully study Magister Operis' Workflow page before expecting Magister Operis to even bother any of these buyers with offers. 

The reality behind the large offers

Magister Operis receives a steady stream of gold offers. Some are genuine, in kilogram quantities. Many more arrive in tens, hundreds, even thousands of metric tons — numbers that imply billion- and even trillion-dollar transactions. The difficulty is rarely the size; it is that most large offers arrive with nothing a serious signatory could act on: no verified ownership, no proof the metal exists, no reachable principal. There is so much of this in circulation that experienced buyers, banks, and counsel have grown cautious of the whole category — which is precisely why a credible seller now stands out so easily.

There is also a common misunderstanding about sequence. Often a chain of intermediaries who have not yet established a real seller will ask the buyer to issue a Letter of Intent first. Buyers operating at this level do not begin there, and it is not a slight — it is simply how serious capital protects itself. The party bringing the asset carries the first burden: to show the metal is real, owned, and lawfully held. Credibility shown earns the buyer's engagement; a demand made before credibility does not.

What earns the attention of someone who can sign for hundreds of tons is straightforward, and it is the same whether the seller is large or small: verified ownership and lawful provenance, proof the quantity exists and where it is held, a real and reachable principal represented by competent counsel, and a transaction built to satisfy a bank, refiner, and auditor. A seller who leads with that is taken seriously at once. None of it is meant to exclude anyone — it is simply what makes a transaction of this magnitude real.

Establishing credibility

Before these buyers will engage, they need a real basis to believe the seller and the metal are genuine. Where a seller is self-evidently credible, that can be enough on its own; where it is not, the natural next step is a credible law firm’s written confirmation of the gold’s history, authenticity, and ownership — what the trade calls attorney attestation. Even attestation is not absolute: its weight depends on who gives it and where. Often the fastest signal is simpler — a named officer writing from the company’s own domain (j.smith@company.com) is plainly not the same as someone using a free webmail address (companyname@yahoo.com). The more a seller looks and acts like the real operation it claims to be — a genuine corporate profile, real counsel, a track record you can check — the faster the conversation moves.

This runs both ways. No one should be asked to pay for a lawyer before they have good reason to believe the buyer is real — and they won’t be. The buyers prove themselves too: who they are, their background, how they operate. Trust is built step by step, and the lawyer’s confirmation comes once there is a real reason to get it, not as a cold demand at the door.

Credibility runs the other way too. When a counterparty proves to be a serious institution in its own right, Mr. Kemper can step forward under his credentials with an affiliated institution — as an officer of it, not merely the person who made the introduction. In plain terms: when the other side is real and substantial, they get to see the institutional weight standing behind this, dealt with directly at the top rather than through a middleman.

Brought the relationship but this isn’t your world? That’s fine. You don’t have to run the transaction or understand every step. Your introduction is respected and protected — and the smartest move you can make is to let the professionals carry it to closing. That’s how the deal closes, and that’s how you get paid.

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Every engagement is governed by the firm’s Method and Disclaimer; intermediaries should also review Broker 101 and the firm’s Due Diligence standards.