Portable Precious Metal Testing & Jewelry Analysis

Perform precious metal testing with certainty

With the volatility and high price of gold and other precious metals you cannot afford the time or the potential inaccuracies of traditional precious metal and gold testing methods to determine the value of items like jewellery or coins being bought, sold, or recycled. Accurate and reliable test results remove variability and subjectivity in measuring the value of gold and precious metals and ensuring a fair transaction.

Many businesses are now turning to Thermo Scientific™ Niton™ portable x-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysers for fast, accurate, and most importantly, non-destructive analysis of the precious metals that come into their shops. Within 3-10 seconds of testing time, Niton analysers provide the exact karat weight and percentages of all elements within an item – easily identifying non-standard, under-karate, and even advanced counterfeit gold with fire assay-comparable accuracy.

Niton DXL and Niton XL2 precious metal and gold purity analysers are equipped with proprietary Thermo Scientific™ patented AuDIT™ gold-plating detection technology. Several independent, complementary methods in the AuDIT (Au/gold Detection & Identification Technology) software work in tandem to alert you to the probability that an item is plated, regardless of the gold concentration of the plated surface layer. AuDIT technology works for vermeil (gold-plated silver), as well as gold-plated copper, steel, tungsten and any other non-gold substrate.

  • Precious metals and gold testing machines simultaneously measure the content of all gold and precious metals without manually changing your calibration based on the metal you're analysing
  • Precisely determine the presence and concentration of more than 22 precious metal and trace alloying elements, including but not limited to gold (Au), Silver (Ag), Platinum (Pt), Palladium (Pd), Nickel (Ni), Tungsten (W), and Lead (Pb).
  • Eliminate the toxicity associated with nitric acid test methods
  • Capture images and focus in on small areas using our integrated cameral and small spot feature (depends on model).
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Electronic gold testing machine for American Jewellery and Loan

Seth Gold of American Jewellery and Loan – 2013 NPA Pawnbroker of the Year and reality television personality – explains why XRF gold testers are a must-have technology for pawnbrokers. 

Accurate gold purity testing and analysis machine meets ease of use

See our gold testing spectrometer in action and how easy gold testing can be. One push of a button or a simple trigger pull delivers accurate purity testing and analysis for on-the-spot sorting and valuation of gold and all precious metals.

Not All That Glitters Is Gold

Watch this webinar to learn how to improve the bottom line of your precious metal business by doing the correct chemical analysis using portable XRF.

Thermo Scientific AuDIT gold-plating detection technology.
Don’t pay solid prices for plated items

Niton DXL and Niton XL2 gold testers are equipped with proprietary Thermo Scientific AuDIT gold-plating detection technology. Several independent, complementary methods in the AuDIT (Au/gold Detection & Identification Technology) software work in tandem to alert you to the probability that an item is plated, regardless of the gold concentration of the plated surface layer. AuDIT technology works for vermeil (gold-plated silver), as well as gold-plated copper, steel, tungsten and any other non-gold substrate.

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