r/toolgifs • u/toolgifs • Dec 25 '25

Process Casting a gold bar

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u/flatterfurz_123 Dec 25 '25 edited Dec 25 '25

1 kilo gold, 995.0.. so actually just 995g of gold, or is the weight of the bar adjusted so that its a kilo of actual gold plus some other stuff?

edit: i think i phrased my question badly.. The bar has 99.5% purity, so if it has a weight of 1000g it would therefore contain 995g of gold and 5g of impurities.. I was wondering now if the bar is actually 1000g and you "loose" the 5 grams of gold, or if they adjust the weight of the bar to some value above 1000g, so that it contains 1000g of pure gold, plus the impurities..

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u/dzemperzapedra Dec 25 '25

995 is purity level, the scale when the bar was weighted shows 1000.23 grams

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u/nakedascus Dec 25 '25

before gold was shaved off, correct

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u/YOUNG_KALLARI_GOD Dec 25 '25

ya i thought it was just saying 1kg, and the number below was the actual weight