XLSlides gold field guide · Sources, licences & modelling notes
Where gold is dug, where it is refined, where it is stored, and how it travels, legally and not. A selected documentary inventory of mines, small-scale mining areas, refiners, vaults, hubs, doré routes, trade flows and smuggling routes. Reference model 2025; source periods differ. Imported 7 November 2026. Not a live production, price or trade tracker. Click anything on the map, or search below.
Click a dot, square, triangle or line on the map. Gold circles are mines, red circles are small-scale (artisanal) mining areas, blue squares are refiners, triangles are trading hubs and buying centres (green) and vaults (purple), gold curves are doré routes and 2025 trade flows, dark red curves are documented smuggling routes.