melting gold

Hope you all had a most wonderful Thanksgiving!! We fire up the box furnace and start melting gold bullion! Dirty, dull sponge gold turns into beautiful gold bars and we end up with a huge shiny gold button! There are many ways to melt gold and pour a bar but the best way is to use what you have.

So some of you probably recognized me from doing gold rush last year on the season finally doing the melt tally. fun stuff and has kept me pretty busy and still are! I have some of the behind the footage we shot for examples of melting gold and or silver for the show. and from these we came up...