Special Report - Sleeping Beauty: How suspect gold reached top brands

Special Report - Sleeping Beauty: How suspect gold reached top brands

Reuters

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From the Andes mountains, thousands of artisanal gold-diggers for years sent fragments of metal to a Swiss valley. There, a refinery purified the gold to sell to banks, watchmakers, fine jewelers and electronics companies. It circulated as ingots, phones and trinkets - some branded with names including Apple and Tiffany & Co.

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