Scrap purchasing services
What types of scrap do Gerrards purchase?
Gerrards buy precious metal scrap in virtually any form, including:
- Gold, Silver, Platinum, Palladium, Rhodium
- live jewellery scrap and assayed precious metal ingots
- job lots, end of lines and retailers redundant stock
- jewellers' lemels, sweeps and scrap requiring melt and assay
- dental scrap, lemels and sweeps
- platinum group metals, scrap and residues
To sell your items complete our postal sale form - click here

How long does it take to process my scrap?
What are the charges?
Gerrards’ charges are as follows:
| Melt & Assay |
| Au Melt and Assay |
£20.00 |
| Pt Melt and Assay |
£40.00 |
| Au/Ag Melt and Assay |
£40.00 |
| Au/Pt Melt and Assay |
£45.00 |
| Au/Pd Melt and Assay |
£45.00 |
| Au/Pt/Pd Melt and Assay |
£65.00 |
| Au/Pt/Pd/Ag Melt and Assay |
£85.00 |
| Au Assay |
£10.00 |
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| Sweeps |
| Au Sweep Charges £3 per kilo |
Min Charge £25.00 |
| Au/Pt Sweep Charges £3 per kilo |
Min Charge £40.00 |
| Au/Ag Sweep Charges £3 per kilo |
Min Charge £35.00 |
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| Delivery Charges |
| Special Delivery per Parcel insured to £2500 |
£7.25 |
| Securicor Charges out per parcel insured to £100,000 |
£25.00 |
| Securicor Charges in per parcel insured to £100,000 |
£50.00 |
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| Payment Charges |
| CHAPS Charge |
£23.00 |
| BACS |
No Charge |
| Cheque |
No Charge |
| Cash |
No Charge |
To sell your items complete our postal sale form - click here

What are the settlement terms?
Why choose Gerrards?