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8 results for “Urban mining” in Markets
Markets · 8 August 2026
Moving Bullion: The Logistics Nobody Prices
…supply-chain due-diligence programmes explicitly modelled on frameworks developed for the mining industry, tracing gold back towards its mine of origin to exclude material linked to armed conflict or serious human-rights abuses. The practical effect on logistics is significant: a…
Ingrid Sørensen · 15 min read
Markets · 11 September 2026
The Last Audit: What We Actually Know About the World's Official Gold
…ok like · Strip away the politics and the exercise is not exotic. Private bullion vaults, mining companies and ETF custodians already run programmes that combine the elements a sovereign holder would need, and none of the individual components requires new technology, new treatie…
Ingrid Sørensen · 22 min read
Markets · 8 September 2026
The Real-Rate Trade: Why Gold Moves When Bond Yields Do
…f 'Commercials' is also vital for a complete view of the market. These are the producers (mining companies) and merchants (bullion banks) who typically hold net short positions to hedge their physical inventory. When Commercials reduce their short position to unusually low levels…
Ingrid Sørensen · 25 min read
Markets · 18 August 2026
The Vault Beneath the City
…old’s most underrated logistical asset: you can store the entire annual output of a major mining nation in a space no larger than a garden shed. It is this concentration of value that makes the architecture of the vault possible. When you are guarding billions of dollars of value…
Ingrid Sørensen · 22 min read
Markets · 6 August 2026
Why Central Banks Started Buying Gold Again
…correction to the record. Some purchases are booked through sovereign wealth funds, state mining companies or other vehicles that sit outside the central bank's own balance sheet and therefore outside standard reserve reporting entirely, even though the gold is unambiguously held…
Ingrid Sørensen · 14 min read
Markets · 20 June 2026
Bring It Home: Central Banks and the Great Gold Repatriation
For half a century it was rational to store your gold in someone else's basement. Then the calculus of counterparty risk changed, and reserve managers started chartering aircraft. · Overseas custody w…
Ingrid Sørensen · 14 min read
Markets · 17 August 2026
Paper Gold: What You Own When You Do Not Own Bars
Most of the world's gold exposure is a contract, not a metal. Futures, unallocated accounts and exchange-traded funds each promise gold in a different way — and the differences only become visible whe…
Ingrid Sørensen · 23 min read
Markets · 2 August 2026
Who Actually Sets the Gold Price
There is no single gold price. There is a London settlement number, a New York futures curve, a Shanghai premium and a jeweller's counter in Dubai — and the distance between them is where the market l…
Ingrid Sørensen · 16 min read
