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6 results for “nanogold applications” in Industry
Industry · 4 August 2026
The Gold Inside Your Phone
…that rarely gets a paragraph, because it involves quantities too small to photograph and applications too dull to romanticise. Technology consumes a few hundred tonnes of gold a year in the form of films a fraction of a micron thick and wires thinner than a hair, and it does so…
Tomas Herrera · 15 min read
Industry · 2 July 2026
Nine Nines: Inside a Modern Gold Refinery
…Some refiners produce 999.99, or 'five nines', for specialist electronics and scientific applications. · Why does the Miller process stop at about 99.5 per cent? Chlorination removes base metals and most silver efficiently, but the remaining platinum-group elements and residual…
Tomas Herrera · 12 min read
Industry · 28 July 2026
Urban Mining: The Richest Gold Ore on Earth Is in Your Old Phone
…nner, and substitution to palladium-coated copper wire in packaging has removed gold from applications that once consumed it steadily. · But recovery does not scale with content alone. Thinner deposits inside more tightly integrated, adhesive-bonded, multi-layer assemblies are ha…
Tomas Herrera · 13 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 · 17 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 · 15 min read
Industry · 6 August 2026
The Scrap Trade
Roughly a quarter of the world's annual gold supply has been gold before. It arrives as broken chains, single earrings and dental crowns, and it moves through a chain of intermediaries that most selle…
Ingrid Sørensen · 15 min read
