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  • 7 - Worth Its Weight

  • from Part III - Trust
  • Edited by Filipe Calvão, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Matthieu Bolay, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Elizabeth Ferry, Brandeis University, Massachusetts
  • Book:
    How Transparency Works
    Published online:
    02 January 2026
    Print publication:
    29 January 2026, pp 145-168
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    In this chapter, I consider how transparency and gold are established and maintained as “global values” and how actors differently positioned within gold markets seek to align them, with greater and lesser degrees of success. I trace how this happens in three clusters of transparency projects: certification schemes and voluntary frameworks for mining companies; efforts to use blockchain technologies to increase transparency in the supply chain; and efforts to verify (and perform the verification of) gold’s presence in European central banks, especially the Deutsche Bundesbank. Exploring these specific sites where transparency and gold convene, both supporting and tugging against each other, allows us to consider transparency from a different angle than is found in many other discussions, viewing gold and transparency as engaged in competitive processes of value-making (and unmaking).