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7 results for “LBMA accreditation” in Industry
Industry · 20 August 2026
The Refiner's Ledger
…Delivery brick sits a chain of chlorination furnaces, electrolytic cells, assay labs and accreditation committees that decides which gold the world's markets will accept without question — and which gold gets quietly refused. · Doré, the raw semi-refined alloy poured at a mine s…
Tomas Herrera · 20 min read
Industry · 2 July 2026
Nine Nines: Inside a Modern Gold Refinery
…que older than the periodic table, remains the referee method for purity. · Good Delivery accreditation governs which bars trade without re-assay in the wholesale market. · Provenance documentation now determines a bar's marketability as much as its fineness. · Recycled scrap is…
Tomas Herrera · 12 min read
Industry · 6 August 2026
The Scrap Trade
…tually bite The OECD Due Diligence Guidance for responsible mineral supply chains and the LBMA's Responsible Gold Guidance now require accredited refiners to trace and document the origin of feedstock, including scrap, and to reject material with red flags such as inconsistent pa…
Ingrid Sørensen · 15 min read
Industry · 7 August 2026
How Fake Gold Is Detected
…ours Typical turnaround for a destructive fire assay 0 Reported forgeries within unbroken LBMA chain-of-custody bars Rising Trend in serialised, database-linked bar authentication
Tomas Herrera · 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…
Tomas Herrera · 17 min read
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…
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 wh…
Tomas Herrera · 21 min read
