Pawnshop Refining: Bulk Smelt or Individual Assay?
Pawnshop refining turns on one question: does your refiner fire assay the melted lot, or estimate before it? When to bulk smelt, and which pieces to pull first.
Expert guides on selling, refining, and investing in precious metals. Stay informed with the latest industry insights.

Pawnshop refining turns on one question: does your refiner fire assay the melted lot, or estimate before it? When to bulk smelt, and which pieces to pull first.

Where to sell silver: what a refinery, coin shop, pawn shop and mail-in buyer each pay on the same $1,982 of sterling, and which one is wrong for bullion.

Scrap gold in the Bay Area: what counts as scrap, how a South SF refiner calculates payout from spot, and every deduction in between. Worked math inside.

Dental lab refining from a South SF refiner: what a refinery can take, what California treats as universal waste, and how lot handling sets your assay.

Buying gold in San Francisco? A South SF refiner breaks down premiums over spot and why a $2,000 purchase carries no California sales tax but $1,900 does.

Where to sell dental gold near me? A South SF refiner on crown, bridge and PFM alloys, the payout math at $4,090 gold, and the one amalgam trap to avoid.
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