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Precious Metals Refining

Links and discussion relating to separating and extracting Precious Metals from other materials, such as electronics and jewelry. Usually the processes discussed here are for the home user to extract Precious Metals from scrap.

15k subscribers86 posts / mo in Sep 202659 authors / mosince 2014

r/PreciousMetalRefining has 15k members (+122% over the last 12 months). It gets about 86 posts a month from 59 people. Top topics: Gold Nuggets, Metal Casting and Crystal Growing.

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Size and growth

How r/PreciousMetalRefining has grown

r/PreciousMetalRefining

Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+122%in 12 months · +12% in 3 months · +1.7% in 1 month
Oct 202615k
Growing15k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
r/PreciousMetalRefining

Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+132%vs Sep 2025 · −15% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 202686
BusierPeaked at 118 in May 2026
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/PreciousMetalRefining

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Gold Nuggets3.3%
  2. Metal Casting2.5%
  3. Crystal Growing2.4%
  4. Silver Collecting and Detecting2.2%
  5. Copper Projects & Techniques1.1%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. eBay
  2. MSN
  3. Wolfram

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research