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3 results for “Troy ounce” in Craft
Craft · 22 July 2026
Hallmarks and Assay: How Anyone Proves Gold Is Gold
…yday standard 375 9 karat — legal as gold in some markets, not in others · Fire assay: destroying the sample to tell the truth · The referee method has barely changed in principle since the sixteenth century. A precisely weighed sample is wrapped with silver and lead and heated i…
Yusuf Demir · 15 min read
Craft · 3 August 2026
The Wedding-Season Bid: How Jewellery Demand Sets the Floor
…ite is not a survey but a spread: the local price versus the London benchmark, quoted per ounce, as a premium or a discount. Positive means importers are competing for metal; negative means the domestic market is oversupplied and is being cleared by recycled scrap and unofficial…
Yusuf Demir · 15 min read
Craft · 5 June 2026
The Alchemy of Craft: What Goldsmiths Know That Machines Don't
Gold's working properties are so extreme they border on the absurd — one gram drawn into three kilometres of wire. Inside a trade where the tools have barely changed and the hands are irreplaceable. ·…
Yusuf Demir · 16 min read
