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From material to settlement

How CrownMen's Refining Process Works

Request a pickup, then CrownMen receives, processes, and evaluates your material. We document the assay and settlement before payment follows according to the approved terms.

Precious-metal refining laboratory
Refining prepares the submitted lot for representative sampling and assay.

Five simple steps

The CrownMen Refining Journey

We guide you from the pickup form through packing, refining, testing, settlement, and payment.

Step 01

Schedule Your Pickup

Fill out the pickup form or contact CrownMen to get started. Tell us what material you have, and we will help with the next step.

If you are unsure about an item, set it aside and ask us before throwing it away.

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Step 02

Confirm and Prepare

After you submit the form, we will call to confirm the lot size. We will then send packing material for your dental scrap.

Pack the material, and a courier company will pick it up and deliver it to CrownMen.

Step 03

Intake, Processing and Refining

When CrownMen receives the material, we weigh the lot, then process or melt it into a homogeneous form ready for testing.

This helps us evaluate the full lot, even when precious metal is not easy to see.

Step 04

Assay and Settlement

We test samples from the processed lot with XRF, averaging readings from four angles. Fire assay is also part of evaluating gold, silver, platinum, and palladium.

Your detailed settlement report shows the results, recovered weights, percentages, applicable market prices, and settlement calculation. Read more: How Dental Scrap Is Evaluated.

Why the Process Matters

Precious metal is not always easy to see. It may be under porcelain or mixed into a dental alloy.

Refining and testing the full lot helps find value that a visual check could miss.

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What You Receive

Your settlement report shows what was recovered and how the settlement was calculated.

  • Recovered precious-metal weights
  • Gold, silver, platinum, and palladium percentages
  • Applicable market prices
  • Settlement calculation
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Process questions

Refining Process FAQ

Learn what each stage is designed to accomplish, or visit the complete CrownMen FAQ.

Fill out the pickup form or contact CrownMen. Tell us what material you have, and we will help with the next step.

Ready to Begin?

Schedule a pickup or contact CrownMen to discuss your material and confirm the appropriate next step.