Secrets of melting and cleaning raw GOLD; Fluxes, Furnaces, Crucibles and Molds

Would you like to melt you own gold or pour your own bars? All Gold has impurities – quartz, iron oxides, etc. - melting with a flux can remove these impurities.
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Proper melting will remove those non-metallic impurities. The quartz, iron oxides, some sulfides, and other stuff get incorporated into the flux and becomes part of the slag of the pour. The melting temperature of gold is 1,064°C (1,947°F). Melting gold ores is not a way to process gold ore – you melt and pour concentrates. What is a flux? What is the purpose of a flux? Flux chemicals help remove non-metallic impurities and collect the metals into a single piece. How much flux do you need? What kind of materials go into a flux? Crucibles and pour molds can be made of graphite, Si carbide, fire clay, fused silica, iron
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