I was just trying to have a little fun within a thread that was a dead horse from the gate.
The cost to refine has always been a personal thing on an individual basis, because of three factors.
Who you acquire your materials from (or for that matter how you go about making them),
the time needed to produce the amount of effort required to provide a product, dependant upon your technique,
and the qualification and quantification of the material being used as source.
That being stated, all one has to do is stabilize these three factors to then afford to calculate a personal cost to refine, compared against an industry prospectus.
The cost to refine has always been a personal thing on an individual basis, because of three factors.
Who you acquire your materials from (or for that matter how you go about making them),
the time needed to produce the amount of effort required to provide a product, dependant upon your technique,
and the qualification and quantification of the material being used as source.
That being stated, all one has to do is stabilize these three factors to then afford to calculate a personal cost to refine, compared against an industry prospectus.