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7 results for “Minamata Convention” in Industry
Industry · 4 August 2026
The Gold Inside Your Phone
…ticles, which can be printed or sprayed onto flexible substrates that would be damaged by conventional plating or soldering processes. The gold quantities involved are minute, often a few micrograms per printed feature, but the application category is expanding quickly as flexibl…
Tomas Herrera · 18 min read
Industry · 6 August 2026
The Scrap Trade
…e shredded, sorted and often pre-treated to concentrate the metal-bearing fraction before conventional refining becomes economic. Formal e-waste recycling operates under increasingly strict environmental permitting in developed markets, reflecting the toxic residues in circuit bo…
Ingrid Sørensen · 16 min read
Industry · 28 July 2026
Urban Mining: The Richest Gold Ore on Earth Is in Your Old Phone
…still mostly copper by mass, goes to a smelter where it functions as feedstock alongside conventional copper concentrate. The precious metals collect preferentially into the copper matte during smelting, are separated at the anode stage of copper electrorefining as a sludge, and…
Tomas Herrera · 16 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 · 16 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. ·…
Tomas Herrera · 16 min read
Industry · 2 July 2026
Nine Nines: Inside a Modern Gold Refinery
A doré bar arrives at 85 per cent purity and leaves at 99.99. Between those two numbers sit chlorine gas, aqua regia, an electrolytic cell and a chain of custody that is now as valuable as the metal i…
Tomas Herrera · 19 min read
Industry · 20 August 2026
The Refiner's Ledger
Somewhere between a mine's doré bar and a Good Delivery brick sits a chain of chlorination furnaces, electrolytic cells, assay labs and accreditation committees that decides which gold the world's mar…
Tomas Herrera · 17 min read
