NTR Metals offers a wide range of precious metals services to the industry, with a focus on providing the best-possible service to its customers.

How to refine with NTR Metals

NTR Metals gives you two convenient refining alternatives: simply visit one of our branch locations or ship directly to our Dallas headquarters.

Drop-off refining at NTR Metals’ locations

  • With walk-in service, you can drop your refining lot and have payment for karat scrap in less than one hour
  • Find a location near you
  • Optional: To lock in a specific spot price prior to drop-off, call our pricing desk at 1-800-889-0396
  • Bring your refining lot to your nearest location
  • Locations are open to service your refining needs 9:00-5:00 (Monday-Friday)

Shipping refining to NTR Metals’ headquarters

  • Download and fill out the NTR Metals business application:
  • Fax your application to NTR Metals’ US or UK office
  • Upon approval, download and complete our Packing Form found at: Packing Form
  • Optional: To lock in a specific spot price prior to drop-off, call our pricing desk at 1-800-889-0396
  • Ship your refining lot (FedEx insured is recommended) to: 

    NTR Metals
    10720 Composite Dr. 

    Dallas, TX 75220

Commercial refining services offered

  • Gold, silver, platinum, and palladium scrap metal refining
  • Stone-removal services for diamonds and other gemstones from all jewelry
  • Refining of floor sweeps, bench sweeps, polishings, filters, and sink collections

Materials we refine

We recover gold, silver, platinum and palladium from the following materials:

  • Karat gold
  • Scrap jewelry
  • Bench filings
  • Grindings
  • Polishings
  • Sterling Silver
  • Gold filled jewelry
  • Sink collections
  • Dental gold and alloys

Customers we serve

  • Coin dealers
  • Pawnbrokers
  • Jewelry stores
  • Jewelry manufacturers
  • Jewelry repair
  • Precious metal exchanges
  • Gold exchanges
  • Gold brokers
  • Gold smelters
  • Gold party businesses
  • Dental labs
  • Dentists

Settlement options

NTR Metals provides flexible price and payment methods:

  • Spot price for refined metals
    • Call up to three days in advance to lock in your price
    • Price metal at the closing price on the day of settlement
    • Price metal at the time of refining for walk-ins
    • Credit metal to consignment (pool account), which allows you to price it at a future spot price
    • Price metal on the second London fix on the day following the settlement
  • Payment methods
    • Trade for any of our “bullion products” with NTR Bullion Group
    • Receive a Bank of America check or wire transfer directly into your account
    • Have funds credited to your Roseco account. This provides an automatic 7% discount on future Roseco purchases

Refining payouts

NTR Metals pays top rates for precious metals. We are not open to the public, so we do not compete with our customers. For quotes on all metals, please call our commercial refining sales department at 1-800-889-0396.

Refining timetable

Walk In
Mail In
Gold
<1 Hour
1-2 Days
Silver
<1 Week
<1 Week
Platinum
1-2 Days
1-2 Days
Palladium
1-2 Days
1-2 Days
Stone Removal
2-4 Days
2-4 Days
Gold Filled
2-3 Weeks
2-3 Weeks
Sweeps
7-10 Days
7-10 Days

Assay services

There is no assay fee for standard gold refining service. Our metal content determination methods include, but are not limited to the following methods:

  • Fire assay (cupellation)
  • Inductively coupled plasma (ICP)
  • X-ray fluorescence (XRF)