Online Precious Metal
Weight Conversion
and Melt Value Calculators

Before you sell any broken or unwanted gold or silver jewelry, use our free and unbiased online melt value calculators to quickly find the gross melt value of almost any precious metal item. The scrap or meltdown value of items like gold and silver jewelry, unwanted sterling silver plaques or trophys, sterling silver cups, plates or silverware, platinum or palladium scrap jewelry or gold and silver coins can be obtained with great accuracy using our free online precious metal calculators.

It's easy to get "short changed" if you are unaware of your broken or unwanted jewelry's melt value. You only need to know the weight of your item and it's purity. The calculators will do the rest. If you are using the silver or gold coin melt value calculators, you only need to know the quantity of each type of coin you have. The coin calculators will tell you the amount of precious metal that is contained within the number of coins that you enter.

Ideal for people who buy and sell scrap sterling silver and gold jewelry or silver coins on ebay or craigslist. For instance, when you are buying gold or sterling scrap and looking at many different auctions, the sellers will often list the weight of their gold or sterling using different weight types. One seller will list his items weight in grams, while another will list his items in ounces or pounds or grains or whatever. Doing the conversions can take valuable time and there is always the possibility that a mistake in calculations can be made when doing the math by hand.

Instead of doing the purity and weight conversions, let the calculators do the math for you. The weight conversion and melt value calculators are online reference tools that eliminate the need for you to perform the tasks of calculating the amount of precious metal content and the conversion to troy ounces using many different weight unit types.You can enter the weight in grains, grams, pennyweights, ounces, pounds, troy ounces, troy pounds, milligrams, kilos and more.

The calculators automatically subtract the weight of the "non" precious metal content. The remainder, which is pure precious metal is converted to troy ounces and multiplyed by the spot price to give you the gross melt value.

If you are selling your scrap items to a Refiner, Jewelry Store, Coin or Pawn Shop, they will need to make a profit and will always pay under the gross melt value. If you are buying or selling on ebay or some other site , there are always fees associated with the transaction. This is why the calculators provide the "gross" value and not the "net" value.

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Here are some hints for finding
the purity of your Gold and Silver Jewelry

For Gold Jewelry it should be stamped 14K, 18K, 22K or some number with a "K" after it. The "K" stands for Karat. A Karat when used in terms of gold, is a measure of purity. This is sometimes confused with Carat, which is a unit of weight used for diamonds and other gemstones that is equal to 200 milligrams.
1 Karat equals 1/24 of the whole. An alloy made of 14 parts pure gold and 10 parts of copper or some other metal is known as 14K or 14 Karat gold...18 parts pure gold and 6 parts of some other metal is 18K or 18 Karat gold..and so on.

For Sterling Silver it should be marked .925 or with a symbol or mark that indicates that it is sterling silver and not silver plated or stainless steel. The standard or law for which an item can be sold as "sterling silver" is it must contain 92.5% pure silver. There are lots of resources on the net to help you find sterling silver marks from silversmith's all over the world.

For Silver, Platinum or Palladium Jewelry it is usually marked .800, .950, .830, .900 or something in a .000 format. This format is simply expressing the items purity as a percentage. If your item is marked .800 it is 80% pure. If it's marked .950 it's 95% pure. If it's marked .835 it's 83.5% pure precious metal.

Most all contemporary precious metal goods are stamped to indicate their purity. If your item is unmarked, it may mean that it has been electroplated or that it may not be made from precious metal at all, so you will have to do a little more research. Possibly purchase a test kit or take it to a reputable jeweler for a purity test if you are unsure.
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The calculators do not work with anything that has only been "plated" with precious metal.
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 To use the Gold Scrap Melt Value Calculator :
1. Seperate your gold items by purity.
2. Find an accurate scale and weigh the individual groups of 14K, 18K and so on.
3. Enter the spot price. (You can put in the spot price located on the calculator or put in any value you want.)
4. Select the weight type you are using..ie, grams, grains, ounces, pennyweights..
5. Enter the weight for each group into the approriate box.
6. Press "enter" or click the "calculae button.

To use the Sterling Silver Melt Value Calculator :
1. Find an accurate scale and weigh your sterling silver.
2. Enter the spot price .(You can put in the spot price located on the calculator or put in any value you want.)
3. Select the weight type you are using..ie. grams, grains, ounces, pounds...
4. Enter the weight of the sterling silver items.
5. Press "enter" or click the "calculate" button.

To use the Silver, Platinum or Palladium Jewelry Melt Value Calculators :
1. Seperate your items by purity.
2. Find an accurate scale and weigh the individual groups of .800, .830, .900 and so on.
3. Enter the spot price. (You can put in the spot price located on the calculator or put in any value you want.)
4. Select the weight type you are using..ie. grams, grains, ounces...
5. Enter the weight for each group into the approriate box.
6. Press "enter" or click the "calculae button.

To use the Silver Coin or Gold Coin calculators :
1. Count the number of coins you have of each different type.
2. Enter the spot price. (You can put in the spot price located on the calculator or put in any value you want.)
3. Enter the amount of coins of each type into the appropriate box.
4. Press "enter" or click the "calculate" button.
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When you are selling broken jewelry or sterling silverware as scrap, any artistic value the piece may have once had, goes by the wayside. Unless the item is of significant importance that warrants trying to get it repaired, the scrap buyer generally doesn't care about the history of the item or artistry of the person who made the piece. The melt value is the only thing that matters to them. If you know the value of the item if it were melted down, you are obviously in a much better position to negotiate a realistic price for your precious metal goods.
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