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7 results for “repatriation and audits” in Industry
Industry · 20 August 2026
The Refiner's Ledger
…a refinery's ability to sell into the wholesale market overnight. · Responsible-sourcing audits, built around OECD due-diligence guidance, are meant to trace gold back through the supply chain to rule out conflict financing, but the system relies heavily on documentation that is…
Tomas Herrera · 17 min read
Industry · 7 August 2026
After the Cyanide
…Tailings dam failures are now explicitly underwritten risks, with specialist engineering audits forming part of the due diligence for project finance and for the liability cover mining companies carry. After Brumadinho, several major insurers began requiring independent tailings…
Tomas Herrera · 16 min read
Industry · 2 July 2026
Nine Nines: Inside a Modern Gold Refinery
…before the melt, not after — which is why refiners maintain sourcing questionnaires, site audits and supplier scorecards that look more like a bank's know-your-customer file than a metallurgist's logbook. · That same logic increasingly extends beyond gold-specific rules into broa…
Tomas Herrera · 19 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 · 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 · 18 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 · 16 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
