A daily board of wholesale gold & silver stock — every listing re-priced against today's metal market and ranked by what the supplier actually charges over it.
The metal
Gold and silver trade on a world market — the spot price ($151/g for pure gold today). That part of any quote isn't the supplier; it's the market.
The markup
A supplier's price is the melt value of the metal plus their markup for alloying and fabricating it. The markup is the only part worth shopping.
The ranking
Each bracket below is sorted by that markup, lowest first. The top row is today's best deal on the board.
| # | Provider | Price / g | Markup over melt |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ross Metalsbest on board 10K White Gold Casting Grain — 10K White Gold · casting grain | $80.35 | +$17.22/g
· 27.3% over melt
|
| # | Provider | Price / g | Markup over melt |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ross Metalsbest on board 14K White Gold Casting Grain — 14K White Gold · casting grain | $112.65 | +$24.08/g
· 27.2% over melt
|
| 2 | Ross Metals 14K Pink Gold Casting Grain — 14K Pink Gold · casting grain | $112.67 | +$24.10/g
· 27.2% over melt
|
| # | Provider | Price / g | Markup over melt |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ross Metalsbest on board 18K White Gold Casting Grain — 18K White Gold · casting grain | $144.41 | +$30.86/g
· 27.2% over melt
|
| 2 | Ross Metals 18K Pink Gold Casting Grain — 18K Pink Gold · casting grain | $144.43 | +$30.88/g
· 27.2% over melt
|
Off the board
Suppliers whose real prices can't be listed here — and why:
- Rio Grande — HTTP 403 to plain requests (bot protection). Prices are public in-browser. Needs headless browser + polite rate limit.
- Hoover & Strong — React SPA; api2.hooverandstrong.com resets plain connections. Major refiner - high value target. Best path is a trade account + their published metals chart.
- Stuller — Largest US supplier. Real pricing requires a trade account; scraping it would breach ToS. Ingest via account export / quote CSV.
- United PMR — Refiner + casting grain/alloys. Account pricing. Also the key REFINING-CREDIT counterparty - see plan doc.
Ross Metals: 3000 products checked, 7 priceable by weight (crawl page-capped). Otto Frei: 3000 products checked, 1 priceable by weight (crawl page-capped). Gesswein: 3000 products checked, 0 priceable by weight (crawl page-capped). Ore Metals (UK): 2000 products checked, 0 priceable by weight (crawl page-capped). 3 suspicious below-melt listing(s) held back. Most catalog items are priced per inch or per piece and can't be compared by weight yet. Listed prices are public single-unit prices — trade-account pricing runs lower. This board is a partial view of the market, not the market.