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Gold and Silver

[testing cut and paste capability] Gold and Silver comprises our gold and silver refining and bullion manufacturing operations. The business serves the world’s mining industries and recycles secondary scrap material. Gold and silver refining operations are located in the USA and Canada.

Stamping 400 ozt gold barsA lot of work goes into making a bar of gold.

  • > Purchase dore bars from mines all over the world.
  • > Melt the dore and add elements like bauxite to remove impurities
  • > Remelt and add chlorine gas (very dangerous!) to further purify
  • > Take samples for lab analysis and verification of purity, called the
  • assay.
  • > Pour into molds
  • > Hand stamp information about each bar, particularly its assay and
  • weight.
  • > Package for shipping.
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