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6 results for “bullion transport” in Industry
Industry · 6 August 2026
The Scrap Trade
…is priced off spot, adjusted for assayed fineness, then discounted for testing, refining, transport and each intermediary's margin. · High-street payouts commonly land well below spot for the contained gold; specialist refiners buying in volume pay far closer to it. · Handheld XR…
Ingrid Sørensen · 15 min read
Industry · 7 August 2026
How Fake Gold Is Detected
…gold ±0.01 mm Dimensional tolerance a modern mint holds · Coins are a different problem · Bullion coins are, counter-intuitively, harder to counterfeit convincingly than bars, and the reason is manufacturing tolerance. A sovereign mint strikes to specifications published to a hun…
Tomas Herrera · 15 min read
Industry · 7 August 2026
After the Cyanide
…was the International Cyanide Management Code, a voluntary certification scheme covering transport, storage, dosing, monitoring and decommissioning, audited by third parties. Voluntary schemes have obvious limits, but the Code did standardise practice at signatory operations in…
Tomas Herrera · 17 min read
Industry · 2 July 2026
Nine Nines: Inside a Modern Gold Refinery
…n. Assurance therefore has to travel as paperwork alongside the metal: mine certificates, transport records, counterparty due diligence and audit. Refiners now maintain compliance teams comparable in size to their metallurgical staff. · Recycling, which is most of the business ·…
Tomas Herrera · 12 min read
Industry · 28 July 2026
Urban Mining: The Richest Gold Ore on Earth Is in Your Old Phone
…d in a single handset is worth a small fraction of what it costs to individually collect, transport, store and manually disassemble that handset. Value appears only at scale and only when the whole device is treated as a bundle of materials — copper, palladium, silver, tin, alumi…
Tomas Herrera · 13 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
