By Ronnie Green, Alpine Gold Exchange.
At the 2025 New Orleans Investment Conference, I was surrounded by professionals discussing a wide range of physical commodities, oil, gas, reserves, and other tangible assets. While these conversations are important, Alpine Gold Exchange approaches the market from a different angle. Our focus is not simply on commodities; our focus is on money, specifically gold and silver, and how those assets function in the real world.
Across commodities, many of the overarching challenges are remarkably similar. Whether an investor holds metals, energy assets, or mineral rights, those investments are ultimately tied to physical goods. Many companies in this space have built long histories of success and strong reputations for customer service steady returns or responsible hedges with varying benefits. Cash intensive, high risk, or low visibility are some of the common problems across the commodities spectrum.
One issue has stood out above all others: liquidity.
Investors frequently ask important but often overlooked questions: How do I actually use my precious metals as money? How does my investment function when I need access to capital? After my purchase who can I go to for question or concerns? What are my options if I’d like to pivot?
Too often in this industry, the answer is to sell, or worse, to be referred elsewhere when liquidity is needed. When a metals company cannot provide a clear path to liquidity for its own products, that should raise concerns.
At Alpine Gold, we believe precious metals should be more than a static store of value. They should be usable financial instruments that can support individuals and families over the long term. This belief has driven the development of our core offerings, including a digital account platform designed to manage liquidity efficiently, full transparency, yield bearing offerings, and most importantly, the ability for clients to borrow against their metals.
The prevailing advice within the precious metals industry is often to “never sell” and to hold assets indefinitely. While long-term ownership is a sound principle, the reality of life is far more complex. No investor can fully prepare for every contingency. The loss of a loved one, a serious accident, or unexpected legal or financial challenges can all require rapid access to capital. In traditional precious metals ownership, accessing that capital typically means selling the metal outright, often triggering capital gains taxes and permanently reducing the investor’s holdings.
Our solution addresses this gap.
Alpine Gold allows clients to borrow against their precious metals at an annual rate of up to 4.8%, enabling liquidity without forcing a sale. This program is not theoretical, it is actively in use, with several million dollars currently deployed. It reflects our conviction that usability matters just as much as ownership. When it comes to integrating precious metals into real financial planning, we believe Alpine Gold is setting a new standard.
Beyond serving individual investors, we are also applying this liquidity-focused approach to other merchants. In conversations with several silver mining companies, a consistent challenge has emerged: raising capital without excessive equity dilution. Many miners resort to complex, dollar-denominated structured loans that require intricate hedging and asset conversions involving silver, gold, or copper.
Alpine Gold’s leasing model offers a compelling alternative. Clients who purchase metals through our platform can lease the value of assets back and earn an annual return paid directly in the metal itself. The opportunities in silver and gold are particularly compelling. Many silver producers are actively seeking growth capital, and silver leasing presents a way to align investors, producers, and long-term asset holders without forcing equity sales.
We are exploring structures in which Alpine Gold sells silver bullion to clients, offers it as a lease-back opportunity, and allocates those funds directly to mining companies as loans. This approach provides merchants with capital while allowing investors to retain metal exposure and earn returns denominated in the asset they believe in.
For us, these developments reinforce a simple truth: the precious metals industry does not suffer from a lack of demand, but from a lack of functional liquidity solutions. At Alpine Gold, we are committed to solving real-world financial problems for real investors, by making gold and silver not only something you can own, but something you can truly use.
