Selling Your Precious Metals
At W.E. Mowrey, we offer a transparent, trustworthy, and efficient service for turning your unwanted gold, silver, platinum, and palladium scrap into immediate value.
Whether you’re a jeweler with bench sweeps, a dental practice with old crowns, or an individual with broken or outdated jewelry, we accurately assess your precious metals using state-of-the-art testing. Our process is designed for clarity: we test and weigh your items right in front of you, explain the current market rates, and provide a fair, competitive offer based on purity and weight.
Experience a secure and straightforward way to unlock the value of your precious metal scrap today.
Guaranteed to beat any pawn shops or resellers near you.
Use our handy scrap calculator to find out what we would pay you for your scrap!
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How to Sell
Mail-in
- Use Mowrey Tyvec mailer (strongest mailer) and coin envelope). If you don't have a tyvec mailer use a padded envelope or box. Contact us if you'd like us to send you a Mowrey Tyvec mailer
- Include information about Name, Address, Email, and phone number
- Use a shipping service with package tracking
- Request "Hand Cancel" - the only way to ensure "Hand Cancel" is to hand to mailing service teller and request.
- Ship to 1435 University Ave W, St Paul, MN 55104
In-person
- Bring your Id
- Visit 1435 University Ave W, St Paul, MN 55104 during from 8:00 - 4:30, Monday trough Friday
- We have an open counter where one of our experts can identify your metals and write you a check in minutes
- If your scrap job requires a melt and assay or processing to properly identify it may take up to 5 business days to issue your check
What we Buy
From the Public
- Gold, silver, and platinum jewelry
- Gold and silver coins/bullion
- Dental crowns
- Gold and Silver watches
- Sterling silver flatware
- Gold fill 1/20, 1/10 and 1/5
- Gold plate
- Morgan and Peace dollars
- Silver US half dollars, quarters and dimes
- Silver plated flatware
From Professionals
- Grindings, filings, and polishings from jewelry manufacturing and dental laboratories
- Filters from dust collection containing gold
- Silver recovered from photo processing
- Platinum thermocouple wire
- Platinum crucibles
- Carpets containing gold grindings
- Gold and Silver cathodes
- Electroplating scrap
- X-ray film
Small quantity vs Large quantity
Small
- Visual Grading: Smaller quantities of material can be purchased by identifying a mark (i.e. 18K, 14K, 10K, Sterling silver, etc.) A stone acid test is then used to verify the mark.
- Touch Stone Acid Test: The item being tested is scratched across a stone. A standard (known) karat is scratched alongside, and then acid is used to compare the time it takes to disappear.
Large
- With a large quantity of items we prefer to melt it all down into a bar
- From this bar a sample is taken and assayed to give us the precise gold, palladium, silver, and platinum content.
- Once the assay is complete and the bar is ready to be purchased; the value assigned and the price is settled on a current or forward market.
Buying Precious Metals
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