| CPC G06F 21/53 (2013.01) [G07B 15/00 (2013.01); G06F 2221/034 (2013.01); G06Q 2240/00 (2013.01)] | 37 Claims |

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1. A system comprising:
a physically secure environment configured to receive precious metal thereto and release the precious metal therefrom; and
a precious metal registration system configured to record
precious metal identification information,
physically secure location information of precious metal, and
certification information and de-processing information of precious metal;
the system further configured to receive precious metal into the physically secure environment by
inspecting, within the physically secure environment, a quality of the received precious metal,
processing, within the physically secure environment, the precious metal into a standard uniform characteristic, and
certifying, within the physically secure environment, a quality value of the processed precious metal, and
registering the certified precious metal in the standard uniform characteristic in the precious metal registration system by
providing a registration indicia on one of the registered precious metal or a container containing the registered precious metal, and
entering a corresponding registration record including the precious metal identification information and certification information in a precious metal registration database of the precious metal registration system; and
the system further configured to release registered precious metal of the standard uniform characteristic from the physically secure environment.
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