KalleMP
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Hi Good people,
There was a thread about the rising price of gold just recently.
I have a different question, not expecting anyone to give up any trade secrets but to give a potential refiner another data point to decide if an offer of e-waste or low karat or plated jewellery is a viable deal.
When starting out a lot of cost is in apparatus but when refining regularly the shift is to consumables. It is the consumable cost that I am most interested in.
So for those who keep track of such things and don't mind giving an approximate guide price please offer your estimate.
Distilled water, gas, electricity, filter papers, silver, chemicals are the interesting things. If one of them stands out as a deal breaker or as irrelevant, mention that as well if you like. Lastly if you are not keeping a very low profile mention the country you operate in.
Price in your currency of choice or convert to Euros and make the price per gramme so it is easy to be sure of the units.
Basically what is the cost X to refine Y gramme of gold into a button of your estimated Z fineness.
If you want to indicate how much it costs to re-refine that would also be useful.
There was a thread about the rising price of gold just recently.
I have a different question, not expecting anyone to give up any trade secrets but to give a potential refiner another data point to decide if an offer of e-waste or low karat or plated jewellery is a viable deal.
When starting out a lot of cost is in apparatus but when refining regularly the shift is to consumables. It is the consumable cost that I am most interested in.
So for those who keep track of such things and don't mind giving an approximate guide price please offer your estimate.
Distilled water, gas, electricity, filter papers, silver, chemicals are the interesting things. If one of them stands out as a deal breaker or as irrelevant, mention that as well if you like. Lastly if you are not keeping a very low profile mention the country you operate in.
Price in your currency of choice or convert to Euros and make the price per gramme so it is easy to be sure of the units.
Basically what is the cost X to refine Y gramme of gold into a button of your estimated Z fineness.
If you want to indicate how much it costs to re-refine that would also be useful.