Silver and Gold refining in the UK

[FriedrichVonHayek]

Does anybody know of any refiners in the UK that deal with members of the public.

Some recent scrap I had melted and assayed had a decent amount of Gold in it, so possibly some of my others will have some in.

Any ideas?

[MBTPSilver]

Possibly Cookson's in Birmingham, I believe they refine scrap - https://www.cooksongold.com/scrap/

[Spyder]

Plenty in Hatton Garden. All depends where you are based. 

This guy is good, if only we could buy the the same things he can buy over the counter

 

[FriedrichVonHayek]

6 minutes ago, Spyder said:

Plenty in Hatton Garden. All depends where you are based. 

This guy is good, if only we could buy the the same things he can buy over the counter

 

I've sent off a few emails, hopefully I receive some positive responses.

[FriedrichVonHayek]

9 hours ago, MBTPSilver said:

Possibly Cookson's in Birmingham, I believe they refine scrap - https://www.cooksongold.com/scrap/

Had an email off Cooksons this afternoon and they won't or don't refine scrap.

[FriedrichVonHayek]

Only received an email response from Cooksons, nothing from Baird&Co,Betts and JBR.

I'll maybe try phoning Bairds sometime and see if they're willing to help.

[FriedrichVonHayek]

Phoned Bairds this morning about refining some of my scrap Silver bars to extract the Gold from them.

The Gold percentage isn't high enough for them to bother with😭.

[sellerstacker]

What percent is the gold?  If you have the bar assayed then I can help. Most refiners will need a min of 100 g gold in their 12 kg bar. I have a 4.5 kg bar wirh 40 g gold in it. I chucked in lot of scrap 9 karat gold in it along with a couple of soldered half sovs. You could do the same, get really bad gold coins and add them to the pot so that the refiners would accept it.

[FriedrichVonHayek]

1 hour ago, sellerstacker said:

What percent is the gold?  If you have the bar assayed then I can help. Most refiners will need a min of 100 g gold in their 12 kg bar. I have a 4.5 kg bar wirh 40 g gold in it. I chucked in lot of scrap 9 karat gold in it along with a couple of soldered half sovs. You could do the same, get really bad gold coins and add them to the pot so that the refiners would accept it.

The bar weighs 273oz and is 0.24% Gold so just over 20g of Gold.

The Bar was assayed by the Goldsmiths' Hall London.

Bairds said they would only refine my bar if it was 20% Gold.

Edited March 28 by FriedrichVonHayek

[littleredflower]

11 minutes ago, FriedrichVonHayek said:

The bar weighs 273oz and is 0.24% Gold so just over 20g of Gold.

The Bar was assayed by the Goldsmiths' Hall London.

Bairds said they would only refine my bar if it was 20% Gold.

What are the usual charges for refining please?

[FriedrichVonHayek]

4 minutes ago, littleredflower said:

What are the usual charges for refining please?

I have only ever had scrap melted into a bar.

With postage it costs around £170 to melt and assay.

Because of the costs I wait until I've got at least 5.5kg.

You could save a bit on postage if you live close to one of the assay offices.

Edited March 28 by FriedrichVonHayek