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6 results for “Akshaya Tritiya gold buying” in Industry
Industry · 4 August 2026
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. · A modern smartphone c…
Tomas Herrera · 15 min read
Industry · 7 August 2026
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. · Tung…
Tomas Herrera · 15 min read
Industry · 28 July 2026
Urban Mining: The Richest Gold Ore on Earth Is in Your Old Phone
A tonne of good underground ore holds a few grams of gold. A tonne of discarded circuit boards can hold two hundred. So why is most of it still going into landfill? · Concentration, not tonnage, is what makes an ore economic — and e-waste is e…
Tomas Herrera · 13 min read
Industry · 2 July 2026
Nine Nines: Inside a Modern Gold Refinery
…ré bar? A doré bar is the semi-pure alloy poured at a mine site, typically 70–90 per cent gold with silver and base-metal impurities. It is the standard form in which mines ship output to refiners. · What does 999.9 fine mean? It means 999.9 parts gold per thousand — 99.99 per ce…
Tomas Herrera · 12 min read
Industry · 6 August 2026
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 co…
Ingrid Sørensen · 15 min read
Industry · 7 August 2026
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 a…
Tomas Herrera · 17 min read
