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7 results for “Nixon shock 1971” in Industry
Industry · 4 August 2026
The Gold Inside Your Phone
…ply-side — a refining bottleneck or a substitution breakthrough — rather than demand-side shocks. · A brief history of gold in electronics · Gold's role in electronics is not a recent accommodation to modern engineering standards; it dates to the earliest days of the transistor.…
Tomas Herrera · 18 min read
Industry · 6 August 2026
The Scrap Trade
…ation. The melt is the moment the trade stops guessing. · Recycled supply is the market's shock absorber · Mine output responds to price on a timescale of years, constrained by permits, capital and ore bodies. Recycled supply responds in weeks. When the price spikes, counters fil…
Ingrid Sørensen · 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
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 · 16 min read
