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Uphold puts its books on the table
A trading app built around a public balance sheet wants to become the plumbing for digital finance. Its history shows both the appeal of moving money more easily and the limits of a reassuring number.
Coeur Mining’s $730 million lesson in scale
A Nevada mine expansion nearly doubled its original construction budget. Coeur’s next chapter asks whether bigger machines and a bigger portfolio can turn more rock into durable cash flow.
TJS makes every piece count.
A jeweler can lock the cabinet and still lose track of what is inside. TJS built a business around closing that gap - one RFID tag, one daily count, one reconciled record at a time.
Mitchell Krebs and the trouble with getting bigger
An Iowa-born finance graduate spent three decades at Coeur Mining learning what growth demands. His next challenge appeared when the numbers looked good.
Hecla’s next act starts underground
A silver miner born in 1891 is rewriting the economics of old mines. The interesting part is what it had to change before it could dig deeper.
Newmont’s next gold rush is about less.
A company built on finding invisible gold is learning another difficult trick: buying more mines, then choosing what to keep. The real prize is what survives the sorting.
Dmitry Plushevsky and the five-minute problem of gold
Gold is easy to keep and awkward to sell. GOLDEX co-founder Dmitry Plushevsky has spent years trying to shorten that distance, from pawnshop automation to a new role shaping Russia’s retail precious metals market.
SpectrAxe asks: why trade only with people you know?
A shared order book is easy to imagine. Letting institutions trade across old credit boundaries is the harder trick - and the premise behind SpectrAxe’s OTC marketplace.
Integral Development sells the machinery behind the money
Banks want their own prices, their own customers and their own rules. Integral supplies the trading machinery - for a fixed subscription - and is taking the same idea into crypto and precious metals.
Gold.com Wants More Than the Sale. It Wants the Whole Journey.
The former A-Mark has bought its way from bullion wholesaling into online shopping, minting, vaults and rare-coin auctions. Behind the new name is a wager that owning more of gold’s journey can make a thin-margin business more rewarding.
David Cole Spent 40 Years Learning How to Own a Mine Someone Else Pays to Build
The geologist who once worked at the ‘pointy end of the stick’ turned patience into a business model - find the rocks, keep a slice, and let time do the expensive work.
The Geologist Who Turned Rocks Into Rent Checks
For nearly 30 years EMX Royalty did the unglamorous half of mining - it found the ground, then let someone else dig. The payoff was a royalty machine that grew about 17% a year and ended in a US$456 million merger.
GOLDEX GLOBAL
GOLDEX GLOBAL builds the world's first mass-produced robotic terminal for automatically assaying, buying, selling, pawning and storing gold and silver. Its self-service kiosks - branded Goldomat and ATM-Pawnshop - combine X-ray spectrometry, hydrostatic weighing and AI to appraise jewellery, coins and scrap in roughly 3-5 minutes and pay customers instantly to a bank card. The company pairs the hardware with management software, a vending line for investment bars and coins, and a blockchain layer for gold tokenization, positioning itself at the intersection of physical precious metals and digital finance.