 November 2018 - The economics of gold
Issue editors: Françoise Roure and Serge Catoire
Conseil général de l’Économie
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Foreword: Françoise ROURE
Conseil général de l’Économie
1 - Finding gold and operating mines
Techniques of prospecting for gold
Jérémie Melleton,
Éric Fournier
and
Éric Gloaguen,
Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM)
Techniques and conditions for operating gold mines
Philippe Matheus,
Compagnie minière de Boulanger (CMB)
Satisfying a gold mine’s energy needs: The Essakane mine in Burkina Faso
Christophe Fleurence,
vice-president of Business Development Africa, Total Eren
Innovations in Mining Operator Efficiency Through Simulation Based Training Technologies and Processes
Immersive Technologies
Financing plans for gold mines: Stages, players and criteria
Sylvain Eckert,
Natixis
Illegal trade in the gold mined by small-scale producers in sub-Saharan Africa
Victoria Reichel,
IMPACT
2 - The uses of gold in industry
The structure of physical gold markets in 2018
Gaétan Lefebvre
and
Mathieu Leguérinel,
Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM)
Using gold nanoparticles in catalysis
Delphine Schaming,
associate professor, Laboratoire ITODYS, Paris Diderot University
Gold in history and civilization, history and the arts
Myriame Morel-Deledalle
and
Jean-Roch Bouiller,
curators of the exhibition on gold at the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations (MUCEM, Marseille)
Measuring gold and making it traceable from its origins: The metrology of powders and molten gold
Laurent Bailly,
Anne-Marie Desaulty,
Philippe Lach,
Wolfram Kloppmann
and
Isabelle Duhamel-Achin,
Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM)
Michèle Rousseau (BRGM) has written a foreword for this article.
3 - Gold for money and banks
The gold market and central bank reserves
Nathalie Aufauvre,
Bank of France
The place of gold in French savings and the means for mobilizing it
François de Lassus,
CPoR Devises, Tessi Group
The exoticism of gold coins and the governance of monetary systems
Vincent Bignon,
Bank of France
From monetary to financial gold
Tanguy Aubert
and
Christian Pfister,
department of statistics, Bank of France
Miscellany
Two articles in a followup to the August 2018 issue, “Ten years ago, the meltdown: Regulating finance and new issues”.
The Retreat from Systemic Risk Regulation: What Explains It? (and Why It Was Predictable?)
John C. Coffee, Jr.,
Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law at Columbia University Law School and Director of its Center on Corporate Governance
Delegating Regulation: European Union and Financial Markets
Sharyn O’Halloran,
Columbia University,
Karen Chen,
Rudra M Guha Biswas,
Hoon Kim,
Pu Liu,
YouFei Zhang
and
YunPeng Zhou
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