Gold Teeth & Dental Crowns Valueposted on Friday, April 12th, 2013 at 8:34 am I have two dental crowns, two gold molars made of mixed metal, according to my dentist. He said metal refiners buy such things and break them down into their separate metals. Do you do that? Thanks from Brett in Milwaukee, WI. Hi Brett,
Yes! As a precious metal refiner we have the capabilities to recover gold from the dental items you have described. Since dental gold is not hallmarked like gold jewelry (14k, 18k etc), you need to make sure that your buyer has the ability to find the exact purity of your items, as dental gold can really vary in purity. We have seen dental gold to be as high as 85% gold, while other times it can be as low as 15%. However, most of the dental gold we see is about 12k, which is 66.66% gold. We run tests with an XRF analytical machine to determine how much gold is available to refine. An at home gold kit may not suffice to give accurate results for the purity of dental gold. Our next-step advice for you is to make sure that your items are as separated from other non-precious metals and materials and you can get them, then weight on a postal scale. You can refer to our payout schedule for gold, but note that these percentages are based on the actual gold content (not the total weight of your items). You can refer to our Dental Gold category for more posts about refining dental gold. Thanks for your question Brett! *Images displayed are only a representation of the items described in this blog post and may not be true images of the items in question. |
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Value of 14k Gold Rope Necklaceposted on Monday, April 1st, 2013 at 12:34 pm I have a gold rope necklace that is 14k gold. It weighs 1.176717 standard ounces. What is the value of this necklace if sold for the melt value? Thanks from Lee in Yakima, Washington. Hi Lee, Thank you for your question. We would recommend starting with our gold value calculator. You can easily plug in the type, weight, purity and daily gold price to find the market value of your gold. Keep in mind that no matter where you sell, the buyer will take out certain fees associated with having to either process or refine the gold. Some gold buyers that are not refiners typically need to take more of a percentage because they are not the end seller of the gold. They need to work with precious metal refiners such as Arch that can recover the gold from items. See the screen shot below. We used the daily gold price of $1,576.90. As a precious metal refiner, we could pay a return of 85% of the gold value back to you, that our rate for 1-2 fine ounces of pure gold.
Hope that helps you! *This price may not reflect the current price of silver when this blog entry was posted. The output from the calculator is not a confirmation of the purchase price from Arch Enterprises. |
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What is Silver Holloware?posted on Monday, March 25th, 2013 at 11:19 am I have heard the term holloware about silver pieces. What exactly does this refer to? Does holloware have value? From Susan in Los Angeles, California. Hi Susan, “Holloware” or “Hollowware” is a term that is basically used to describe everything except flatware this includes serving pieces and tableware such as pitchers, teapots, sugar bowls, butter plates, food covers, creamers, silver artwork and sculptures, cake stands and other similar items. Like flatware, hollowware can be sterling silver or plated silver, so you still have to be careful to know which you have as it will greatly affect the value. Sterling silver is 92.5% pure silver, whereas silver plated items contain only a very thin layer of silver, to the point where it costs more money to refine plated silver than we can get out. That is why we do not accept silver plated items. We will however, accept sterling silver holloware items. Make sure that your items are sterling. Note that some of these items can be weighted or contain other materials in them to make them stronger (such as knife blades that are usually stainless steel). If you can find the weight of just the sterling silver material, you can plug it into our silver value calculator for an estimate of the market value of your sterling silver items. We typically pay 75% of the silver value back to our customers. Hope that answers your question! |
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Value of a 57 Piece Sterling Silver Setposted on Monday, March 18th, 2013 at 10:53 am I have a 57 piece sterling silver set that includes 10 place settings of 5 each plus 7 extras; gravy scoop, meat fork, table spoon, pierced spoon, pie server, butter knife, and sugar spoon. How much would this roughly weigh, and roughly what is the value if I sell to melt it? Thanks! From Jeff in Nashville, TN Hi Jeff, Without the weight, it would be near impossible to give you an estimate to what your silver pieces are worth for the silver value. Do you have access to a postage scale or food scale you could use? Really you would only have to weight 12 pieces of your 57 piece set. One of each piece in your place settings and your 7 “extra” serving pieces. As precious metal refiners we will take all of your pieces and weigh for the sterling silver value ONLY. So we would take a part any pieces that we could to make sure that they are not weighted or filled. See these blog posts about sterling silver that may help: About sterling silver knives: www.precious-metal-refining.info/value-of-knives-from-sterling-silver-sets/ About sterling silver serving pieces: http://www.precious-metal-refining.info/silver-cake-server-and-serving-spoon-stamped-with-%E2%80%9Csilver%E2%80%9D-precious-metal-refining-blog/ Once we have the weight of the sterling silver only, we would multiple with the daily silver value, then we payout 75% of the silver value back to you – the customer. Here is a post from someone that had a 69 piece sterling silver set and the silver price used that day was $33.66/troy ounce. http://www.precious-metal-refining.info/where-to-sell-sterling-silver-flatware-set/ Hope that helps you out. Here is our packing slip should you decide to sell: http://www.archenterprises.com/packingSlip.pdf *Images displayed are only a representation of the items described in this blog post and may not be true images of the items in question. |
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Arch Now Accepts Large Lots of Gold Filled Jewelry to Refineposted on Monday, March 11th, 2013 at 10:09 am In the past we have talked about the difference between karat gold, gold filled, rolled gold and plated gold. Out of all of these we only accepted karat gold, but we are now accepting large lots of gold filled jewelry. This includes necklaces, bracelets, watches, earrings, eyeglass frames or other gold jewelry items.
Gold filled jewelry and other items may be marked “GF” and found in 1/10 10k GF, 1/20 10k GF, 1/10 12k GF, 1/20 12k GF, 1/10 14k GF and 1/20 14k GF grades, to name but a few. Gold filled is different than the rolled gold and gold plating technique because it typically utilizes a hollow gold tube that is filled with another non-precious metal. Rolled gold and gold plating techniques involved covering a non-precious metal with a very thin layer of gold. Arch Enterprises does not refine rolled gold or gold plated materials. If you are a jeweler, eyeglass manufacturer, or pawn shop that has a large amount of gold filled items, please contact us to we can discuss the volume of your material, the grade and give an estimate based on this information. So to sum up, Arch DOES ACCPT the following:
Arch DOES NOT ACCEPT the following:
We will however except samples and make assessments in some situations. |
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