On a weekday afternoon in February, Josh Morelock, the general manager of Gold Refinery of San Diego, scooped glinty gold objects from a bowl and placed them into smelter fired up to 2,000 degrees ...

Heating that lasted only trillionths of a second raised a gold sample’s temperature to 19,000 K without melting it, a study suggests. Scientists say that they have heated solid gold for a fleeting ...

A 3,000-year-old gold bracelet that disappeared from an Egyptian museum earlier this month was stolen and melted down, the country’s Interior Ministry said on Thursday. The Antiquities and Tourism ...

Gold and silver prices are soaring, but predatory buyers are waiting. Here's how to calculate melt value and find the right buyer.