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4 results for “Fort Knox audit” in Science
Science · 3 November 2026
Made, Not Mined: Synthetic Gold and the Future of the Global Gold Trade
…e this before sale, and some proposals involve storage periods of years for regulatory comfort. · Would buyers be told if a gold bar was made in a reactor? There are currently no rules, because there is no product. Industry bodies and assayers have begun discussing disclosure and…
Tomas Herrera · 25 min read
Science · 8 August 2026
The Metal That Went Medical
…arnet by reducing a gold chloride solution with phosphorus, and then spent considerable effort defending the claim that the ruby colour came from gold itself. His contemporaries assumed a dissolved compound. Faraday argued the metal was still metal, merely divided into particles…
Amara Okonjo · 19 min read
Science · 10 August 2026
Where Gold Actually Comes From
…rs suggests r-process enrichment happened earlier in cosmic history than mergers alone comfortably explain. What has changed since 2017 is that the argument is now about relative contributions rather than about whether the mechanism has ever been observed. · Delivery: the metal t…
Tomas Herrera · 17 min read
Science · 9 August 2026
The Metallurgy of Karat
Pure gold is too soft to hold a stone, too soft to hold an edge, and the wrong colour for half the world's taste. Almost everything you own that is gold is a designed alloy — and the design is where t…
Tomas Herrera · 17 min read
