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Pawnshop Refining: Bulk Smelt or Individual Assay?

Pawnshop Refining: Bulk Smelt or Individual Assay?

Issac Makdessian
Published on: 08/10/2026

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.

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