This quarter's GDL Newsletter is a brief history lesson on the Assaying & Refining Conference, brought to you by Dr Mike Hinds (Consultant, LBMA). LBMA’s Assaying and Refining (A&R) Conference was first held on Tuesday 21 – Wednesday 22, 2005 at the Armourers’ Hall in London. It was an extremely important event for me. This was the first opportunity to meet a group of people who engaged in the same activities that I did for a living: the assaying and refining of precious metals. The Conference was promoted by Dr Stewart Murray, then CEO of LBMA, who wanted to assist the industry in raising technical standards after ... (full story)