Melting Down Gold Nuggets

In fact most gold buyers only pay around 75 of spot for small flakes.

Melting down gold nuggets.

The remaining substances will be just water and gold the latter having a purity level of more than 99 99 percent. As per the title i m wanting to melt down a little over 1oz of gold nuggets to make into a coin round. Dry this residue until only gold powder remains. Melting gold leaf into a nugget.

I agree with what s been said about not melting nuggets but fine gold flakes are usually not worth more than spot. Today refined gold trades at about 445 per ounce near a 15 year high. This method will dissolve the ore and separate the gold from the impurities which can later be washed away. That s because the process is problematic if the piece is less than 24k gold.

So a person may be better off to screen out his fine gold and refine it. Even the smaller gold nuggets sell for about 560 per ounce. Submerge the unrefined gold in a mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acids. Would anyone be able to point me in the direction of someone that can help cheers richard sounds cool but as nuggets aren t usually 100 gold if you want to make a profit at any stage on this you d do better selling the nuggets.

Other karats of gold such as 14k or 18k are not 100 gold.