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7 results for “tailings dam failure” in Industry
Industry · 7 August 2026
After the Cyanide
…als meet air and water, and can run for centuries without intervention. · Upstream-raised tailings dams — built on their own deposited waste — carry the worst failure record and are now banned or being phased out in several jurisdictions. · Closure liabilities are supposed to be…
Tomas Herrera · 16 min read
Industry · 4 August 2026
The Gold Inside Your Phone
…uman body for decades. The reliability requirements in these applications are absolute; a failure could have catastrophic consequences for the patient. · Beyond electronics, gold nanoparticles are being used in targeted drug delivery systems and as contrast agents in advanced ima…
Tomas Herrera · 18 min read
Industry · 20 August 2026
The Refiner's Ledger
…accurate fineness, responsible sourcing and financial and operational stability. It is fundamentally a trust credential: it lets the market treat one refiner's bar as interchangeable with another's without re-testing every bar, which is what makes gold genuinely fungible at whole…
Tomas Herrera · 17 min read
Industry · 28 July 2026
Urban Mining: The Richest Gold Ore on Earth Is in Your Old Phone
…ehold quantity of scrap is worth a few pounds, and informal processing is one of the more damaging sources of heavy-metal pollution worldwide. · Why don't manufacturers just design devices to be recycled more easily? Because disassembly cost is a real cost and gold recovery is a…
Tomas Herrera · 16 min read
Industry · 2 July 2026
Nine Nines: Inside a Modern Gold Refinery
…t, which pushed the industry towards operators with the balance sheets to absorb an audit failure without going under. Third, and most simply, economies of scale in a thin-margin, high-volume business reward the largest players disproportionately. · Switzerland's outsized role ·…
Tomas Herrera · 19 min read
Industry · 7 August 2026
How Fake Gold Is Detected
…elements present and quantifies them well. It takes seconds, requires no preparation, and damages nothing, which is why every serious dealing room owns one. · Its limitation is not a calibration problem to be solved but a physical one. The exciting radiation penetrates only tens…
Tomas Herrera · 16 min read
Industry · 6 August 2026
The Scrap Trade
…weeks. When the price spikes, counters fill, and the additional metal reaching refineries damps the move; when the price falls, the flow dries up almost immediately. In some years recycling has supplied close to a third of total gold coming to market, without a single new hole be…
Ingrid Sørensen · 16 min read
