RE: Gold sale price13 Aug 2025 13:53
30-day settlement means the revenue from gold sold in (say) late March might only be recognized (or the price locked in) in April.
If you calculate the average sales price for Q2 (Apr–Jun), that April number will partially reflect March market prices.
The effect is even more pronounced when prices are moving sharply — for example, if March prices are low but April–June are higher, that leftover March pricing will drag down Q2’s average.
This timing mismatch is accounting-driven, not operational — the physical gold is sold earlier, but the contractual/hedge settlement and cash receipt lag causes a quarter-boundary bleed-over.
So yes — if the miner is also paying down a hedge, that can further influence the recognized sale price, because hedge settlements are usually matched to the delivery date but may be recognized in the same period as the physical settlement. This can make the reported average price lower (or higher) depending on the hedge book’s mark-to-market at the time.