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Every story we have published about the metal.

20 long-form pieces across history, markets, industry, craft, mining and science. Filter by desk, re-sort, or search the full text of every issue.

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Terraced tailings storage embankment beside a still pale pond at dusk, with dark hills behind and a single excavator for scale

Industry

After the Cyanide

Every ounce of mined gold leaves behind roughly a tonne of processed rock and the water that carried it. What happens to that material after the last shift is the part of the industry with the longest timeline and the least coverage.

7 August 2026 · 17 min read

Authentication bench with digital calipers, an ultrasonic probe and a handheld analyser beside gold bars and coins

Industry

How Fake Gold Is Detected

Counterfeiting gold is not about making something that looks right. It is about defeating a specific test, and the industry's defences are an escalating conversation between forgers and instruments.

7 August 2026 · 15 min read

Precision balance holding a tangle of broken gold chains and single earrings in a weighing tray, with a loupe and paper docket on a dark desk

Industry

The Scrap Trade

Roughly a quarter of the world's annual gold supply has been gold before. It arrives as broken chains, single earrings and dental crowns, and it moves through a chain of intermediaries that most sellers never see past the first counter.

6 August 2026 · 15 min read

Macro photograph of gold-plated connector pins and contacts on a green circuit board

Industry

The Gold Inside Your Phone

Industrial demand is the quietest third of the gold market: a few tenths of a gram per handset, multiplied by billions of devices, chosen not for prestige but because nothing else conducts as reliably for as long.

4 August 2026 · 15 min read

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