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7 results for “Fort Knox audit” in Industry
Industry · 20 August 2026
The Refiner's Ledger
…a refinery's ability to sell into the wholesale market overnight. · Responsible-sourcing audits, built around OECD due-diligence guidance, are meant to trace gold back through the supply chain to rule out conflict financing, but the system relies heavily on documentation that is…
Tomas Herrera · 17 min read
Industry · 2 July 2026
Nine Nines: Inside a Modern Gold Refinery
…cial strength, passing blind proficiency testing on a regular cycle, and an independently audited responsible-sourcing programme, and refiners can be and have been suspended for failing any of the three. The scarcity of the list is what makes it function as a trust registry rathe…
Tomas Herrera · 19 min read
Industry · 7 August 2026
How Fake Gold Is Detected
…ght is visibly too large; one of the right size is far too light. · Tungsten ends that comfort. At 19.25 g/cm³ it sits within a third of one percent of gold, comfortably inside the error band of any field density measurement. It is cheap, industrially available, and — this is the…
Tomas Herrera · 16 min read
Industry · 7 August 2026
After the Cyanide
…certification scheme covering transport, storage, dosing, monitoring and decommissioning, audited by third parties. Voluntary schemes have obvious limits, but the Code did standardise practice at signatory operations in a way regulation alone had not. · The counter-intuitive part…
Tomas Herrera · 16 min read
Industry · 6 August 2026
The Scrap Trade
…declared origin is scrap rather than newly mined ore, verified through a chain-of-custody audit trail. It does not mean the metal is physically different — refined gold carries no trace of its history. The value of the certification lies entirely in the paperwork behind it, which…
Ingrid Sørensen · 16 min read
Industry · 28 July 2026
Urban Mining: The Richest Gold Ore on Earth Is in Your Old Phone
…mpliance and capital costs across enough gold-bearing material that the economics work comfortably. A plant processing five tonnes a day, even of identical feedstock, often cannot cover its fixed costs from the precious-metal fraction alone. This is the opposite of hard-rock mini…
Tomas Herrera · 16 min read
Industry · 4 August 2026
The Gold Inside Your Phone
…tients are choosing it because their grandfather had one and it never gave him trouble in forty years. Prosthodontist, dental materials researcher · Measuring a market that barely moves · Because technology demand changes so slowly, analysts treat any material shift in it as a ge…
Tomas Herrera · 18 min read
