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4 results for “strip ratio mining” in Markets
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 was a Cold War co…
Ingrid Sørensen · 13 min read
Markets · 8 August 2026
Moving Bullion: The Logistics Nobody Prices
…it. It widened because there were no flights and the casting lines were full. A vault operations manager, on the March 2020 EFP dislocation · Insurance, and the clauses that matter · Every stage of this chain is insured, and the cover is where operational risk is actually priced…
Ingrid Sørensen · 17 min read
Markets · 6 August 2026
Why Central Banks Started Buying Gold Again
…ding metal has always been defended on grounds that sound, to an asset manager, faintly irrational. · ~1/5 Share of above-ground gold held by the official sector 1999 First Washington Agreement caps coordinated European sales 2010 Official sector turns net buyer for the first tim…
Ingrid Sørensen · 17 min read
Markets · 2 August 2026
Who Actually Sets the Gold Price
…way, a persistent Shanghai premium is a demand signal, and a persistent discount is a saturation signal. Traders who watch the physical market treat these numbers as one of the few honest, unmodelled inputs available, precisely because they cannot be produced by sentiment. Somebo…
Ingrid Sørensen · 15 min read
