Refining Gold Jewelry Scraps - Ganoksin Jewelry .
The process is complete when purple fumes of gold chloride start to form, usually when the gold content reaches a purity of 99.6 to 99.7 percent. Any PGMs present are not removed, and further refining is necessary if pure gold is required. The typical gold purity achieved by this process is 99.5 percent, with silver as the main impurity.