African Gold
Dealers & Miners
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Connecting Buyers To Dealers
We explore the gold and minerals dealers’ level of experience, credentials, and reputation plus factors such as asking price. We work witha reliable dealers when buying your gold.
Check the Reviews
We invest our consultation in customer reviews and recommendations. We look for the reviews posted or recommendations about how past customers were satisfied with the dealer will helps us to know what services to expect.
Check the Current Gold Rate
We are always in touch with minerals and gold dealers, we check the gold rates on daily basis. Different dealers have different gold rates. Besides checking the price of gold, we also counter-check the purity of gold before buying it.
Check the Credentials
Monitoring the gold quantity and quality certification from a government agency will be a great idea. You should check if the gold dealer has met the qualifications and if he is certified before buying their precious metal. The documents will attest to you that the dealer only deals with legit and pure gold.
Dealers should have authentication certificates that show they passed all the checks and are reliable to sell you gold.
Check for References
When buying gold, it is essential to be careful because trusting a dealer who you have barely met can be challenging. It is better to work with a consulting agent (like African Gold Dealers) or a referral dealer from your friend who had past transactions and was successful.
Testing Quality Of The Minerals
The mineral AGDMM laboratories provide sample preparation facilities and a wide range of Total Quality Assurance mineral testing services.
AGDMM independent inspection, sampling, testing and certification services assist to protect the quantity and quality of mineral commodities reducing ...
These fine particles are then heated in a furnace to temperatures above 1064 degrees Celsius the melting point of gold. The heating process burns most of the impurities but some like other metal elements remain.
How do you test for minerals?
Mineral Identification Tests
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Luster: The quantity and quality of light reflected from the surface. ...
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Color: Obvious, but not always diagnostic. ...
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Streak: The color of the powdered mineral. ...
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Hardness: Hardness is the resistance of a mineral to scratching.
How can minerals be tested?
The physical properties of minerals are determined by the atomic structure and crystal chemistry of the minerals. The most common physical properties are crystal form, color, hardness, cleavage, and specific gravity. One of the best ways to identify a mineral is by examining its crystal form (external shape).
Gold Melting, Smelting & Refining
Gold miners have to smelt their gold in order to remove impurities resulting in pure gold.
Most large scale gold miners send their ore to smelters with large equipment for the smelting process. Small scale miners still can do their own smelting using specialized kilns.
Many people confuse gold smelting with melting. Whereas gold melting is simply heating gold to turn into a liquid form before forming gold bars, smelting is a more complex process that involves the removal of impurities from gold using heat, pressure and a number of chemicals.
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Gold Processing
The first step in gold smelting involves processing the gold ore.
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Pre-smelting Chemical Removal
Some chemicals found in the gold ore can be quite dangerous both the health of the smelter and the longevity of the smelting equipment. It is, therefore, important that such elements are first removed from the gold materials before smelting takes place.
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Removing Impurities
Once the raw ore has been processed the next step of the gold smelting process involves the use of chemicals to remove impurities from gold. At this stage, most of the impurities in the gold material are traces of other metal elements.
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Melting
Once the gold has been purified it is put into the furnace one last time so that it is melted in readiness for it to be mold into ingots. Before gold is sold it is usually made in form of gold bars of various sizes and shapes. These are what are referred to as ingots.
Documentation
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Documenting
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Bills
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Certificating
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Licensing
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Logistics
The ocean freight industry is (in)famous for its paperwork. Getting to know all of them is tedious enough — getting them right is a task in itself. Any seemingly innocuous error can cause problems and delays that may severely disrupt your supply chain.
By and large, many of these documents contain the same information — buyer, seller, merchandise details, etc. But each document plays a different role and it’s important to not only make sure that the information written on each document is accurate but that it’s consistent across all the documents.
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Bill of Lading - The Bill of Lading, also known as B/L, is a contract of carriage between the shipping line and the cargo owner. It’s a document issued by the carrier to acknowledge the receipt of your cargo for shipment on board their vessels.
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Packing list - The packing list informs your freight forwarder, importer, customs office, and carrier, of the goods you’re sending without needing to physically verify the contents.
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Commercial invoice - The commercial invoice is a legal document that lists the goods being sold and their sale price — i.e., what the importer has agreed to pay in exchange for these goods, and is sent to the party who’s paying for the goods.
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Certificate of origin - The certificate of origin is needed to clear customs and it determines the amount of duties and taxes that need to be paid.
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Letter of Credit - The letter of credit is a formal, binding agreement of payment between buyer and seller. It’s considered one of the safest payment methods.