The largest miner on earth replaced barely a quarter of its reserves.
Central banks are selling what they used to trust.
Sovereign reserves now absorb a quarter of global mine supply.
The bond market reversed. The metal didn't.
The cost gap is written into policy through December 2027.
Miners dig more earth and pull less metal from it.
Geology does not respond to demand signals.
The metal in Moscow kept generating billions.
It moves from the mine to the vault without touching a market.
The biggest reserve is still trapped. Not by trust, but by scale.
Now they're buying it back 30 kilograms at a time.
The fastest-growing mining region is locking the vault door.