CME Clearing’s year-to-date delivery notices report for metals (DLV665-T), run on 8 September 2026, sets out COMEX 100 Gold futures notices month by month, and the January-to-August columns add to 173,027, with a further 2,717 standing against September business dates through 8 September. Monthly totals run from 8,838 in May to 40,841 in June, and August closed at 20,343. At the contract’s 100 troy ounce unit, the January-to-August count is 17.3 million ounces, or about 538 tonnes. Notices issued through the customer account of one clearing member, JP Morgan Securities, total 51,567 of the 175,744 recorded for January to 8 September.
The COMEX 100 Gold contract settles against one bar of 100 troy ounces or three one-kilogram bars, at a minimum fineness of 995, bearing the mark of a refiner on the exchange’s approved brand list and held at a depository the exchange licenses. Settlement follows the weight recorded for the bars delivered against the weight list, and the contract carries a tolerance around its 100-ounce unit. These totals count contracts settled to the exchange specification. A purchase written to 999.9 in a one-kilogram format from a named refiner is filled against its own specification, and the two coincide only where brand, fineness and format do. Heraeus and Argor-Heraeus SA marks are eligible against the contract, and both refiners also produce cast and minted formats the contract does not admit. The report separates customer accounts from house accounts, so the 51,567 notices sit in client business cleared by the member, and a concentration figure read across both rows attributes house positions to clients. Metal moved from a licensed New York depository into allocated placement at Brink’s Hong Kong or Brink’s Singapore passes load-out, an exchange-approved carrier, customs at both ends and re-weighing on arrival, and a change of format adds a refining step before allocation by serial number.
The report covers notices issued and stopped through the 8 September business date. CME Group sets contract terms, the approved brand list and the licensed depository list, and its daily metal depository statistics carry the stocks held against them.