Monday, July 22, 2013

Getting Your Gold Melted Down

By Sienna Nalin


If you are thinking about getting your gold melted down and made pure, you know you need to go to a gold refinery. A gold refinery will of course have some charges with melting down your metal. A gold refinery I would say is the safest place to take your metal when you are trying to get it pure and see how much it weight.

Gold refineries are becoming very popular among those that want to makes their gold pure. Gold refineries of course have many other services and really will work with you. Gold refineries of course are for melting down gold and extracting the impurities from it. With impurities gone, the gold is much easier to sell because it is pure and the price is easier to base off of the gold spot price. Gold refineries not only melt down gold for that purpose, but they also melt it down so the owner can possibly sell it to a jeweler to mix with another metal. Gold refineries are open to doing business with anyone, but most of their clientele is industrial companies.

The process begins with assaying, which is a fancy way of saying that your gold is assessed for its precious metal content. The refinery weighs the gold in whatever form it may be (jewelry, bullion) and then tags it. They may even employ acid tests using nitric acid in order to make note of its resilience or lack of it, to determine the composition of the gold. Assayers will also take a drilled sample from the gold and send it to a laboratory that will determine the gold composition. The assay will then use varying methods to further determine the composition of gold, the most common being a fire assay. This involves heating the gold sample up in high temperature furnace, mixed with compounds that will separate non-precious metals from the gold. The process continues with the actual refining of gold, to separate the impurities that are in it.

...Additional information at How Gold Refining Companies Earn BIG Profits

With knowing all this information you now know the process of how gold is melted down. With knowing this process and what will go on you are able to make sure that nothing goes wrong while your gold is being melted down.




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