14k gold price per kilo

Melt value scales exactly with weight, so a kilo is simply a thousand times the gram figure. What changes at volume is the percentage a refiner pays. Refining has fixed costs per batch, so larger lots carry a smaller proportional deduction and quotes above 95% of melt become realistic.

This is the single reason it is worth consolidating before selling. Ten people each selling 100 grams separately will collectively receive noticeably less than one person selling a kilo, for exactly the same metal.

Not many individuals. A kilo of 14k is roughly 150 to 250 pieces of ordinary jewellery, so the people arriving with one are usually executors liquidating an estate, jewellers closing or clearing old stock, dental practices that have accumulated crowns over years, and buyers consolidating what they have taken over the counter.

If that is you, you are dealing directly with refiners rather than shops, and the relationship is different. You will be quoted a percentage of assay rather than a flat price, and you will be expected to ship rather than walk in.

A counter buyer tests each piece. A refiner melts the whole lot into a homogeneous bar, takes a sample, and assays that. The number they pay on is the assay result, not your hallmark count, which is why mixed estate lots so often settle differently from what the stamps suggested.

XRF reads the sample quickly and non destructively. Fire assay, which cups the sample and weighs the recovered gold directly, is slower and destroys the sample but remains the reference method and the one used when real money is at stake. If a settlement looks wrong, asking for the assay certificate is normal practice.

Get your own weight and an independent estimate before shipping. Once a lot is melted it cannot be un-melted, and you have lost the ability to argue about what was in it.

Counter sales pay immediately. Refiners pay on assay, which typically takes days, and the price may be fixed on the day the lot is received, the day it is assayed, or the day you elect to settle, depending on the contract. Those are materially different prices in a volatile market.

Read which one applies before you ship, and ask whether you can lock the price at the point of sending. On a kilo, a two percent move while you wait is real money.

People search for a price per pound, but no gold buyer works in pounds. It is a useful mental check for very large lots and nothing more. One pound avoirdupois is 453.6 grams, which at 14k holds about 264 grams of fine gold.

Note also that the troy pound, at twelve troy ounces, is a different quantity again and is effectively obsolete. If anyone quotes you in pounds, establish which pound they mean before agreeing to anything.