Sitemap — every page on this archive, with its publication date

Restored dispatches, by section

Twenty-two dispatches are restored in full at their original addresses, with their original headlines and publication dates unchanged. The remaining archived dispatches redirect to whichever hub or reference page covers their subject.

All 22 in date order

1. 15 Oct 2011 Festive season to boost India gold buying
2. 18 Nov 2011 China’s SGE may raise silver trade margins again
3. 27 Dec 2011 China’s Pan Asian Gold Exchange in trouble
4. 2 Jan 2012 Africa’s Mali produces 43.5 tons of gold in 2011
5. 16 Jan 2012 Russia’s Nord Gold to list GDR on LSE soon
6. 8 Feb 2012 India,Iran reach oil payment deal without gold
7. 9 Feb 2012 India to evaluate world’s largest gold treasure soon
8. 8 Mar 2012 Tocom hopes CME tie-up to boost gold trade
9. 17 Apr 2012 Platinum production plunges in South Africa
10. 14 May 2012 More than 500 gold shops closed down in Saudi Arabia
11. 9 Jul 2012 Electronics industry uses 320 tons of Gold,7500 tons of Silver annually
12. 16 Jul 2012 Now’s the perfect time to invest in Silver
13. 17 Aug 2012 Poland’s Amber Gold liquidated
14. 5 Oct 2012 Romania wants Gold treasure back from Russia
15. 22 Nov 2012 Central banks Gold purchase to hit 500 tons in 2012
16. 20 Mar 2013 India Gold ETF investment outlook remains murky
17. 20 Mar 2013 India central bank may ban Gold coin sales by banks
18. 24 Apr 2013 Alrosa diamond production hits 34.4 million carats in 2012
19. 27 May 2013 Can Texas become 1st tax free Gold state?
20. 20 Jun 2013 How Silver kills bacteria finally revealed
21. 22 Jul 2013 India witnesses spurt in Gold smuggling
22. 25 Jul 2013 How to calculate the Indian price of Gold

How the addresses are built

Every restored dispatch sits under /news/ followed by its original slug and its original numeric id, in that order, with no file extension and no trailing slash. Both are inherited rather than chosen. The id is what the original publishing system issued when the item was filed, and it is what makes two dispatches with similar headlines distinguishable; the slug is the one the original system generated from the headline, including where it generated an odd one. Four of them read strangely for that reason: one headline ran two country names together without a space, another carried a figure with a comma directly into the path, and they are kept exactly as they were, because an archive that tidies its own addresses stops being one.

That also explains why a headline and its own slug can disagree. One dispatch is headlined with a figure of 43.5 tons while its address says 435. The headline is what was published and the address is what was issued, and correcting either one would break something: the headline is the text that a reader quotes, and the address is the string a reader follows.

What happens to the dispatches that are not listed here

The original site filed several thousand items over five years. Twenty-two are restored in full; 589 further archived addresses, covering 586 distinct dispatches and none of them among the twenty-two, resolve instead to the hub or reference page that covers their subject, so that a link made to any of them still arrives somewhere that answers the question it was about. The largest groups go to gold (287 addresses) and silver (112), then mining (50), company news (29), platinum and palladium (19), exchange-traded funds (14), diamonds and gems (10) and the editorial section (8). A further 60 go into the reference layer rather than a hub, because what they were about is explained better by a mechanism than by a section: 42 to India's gold import regime, 14 to contract specifications and 4 to how gold is priced.

Consolidation is not deletion, and it is not permanent. Where a specific archived dispatch is genuinely being used, whether cited, taught from or relied on as a source, the case for giving it a full page of its own is considered on that evidence; contact sets out what to include in such a request.

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