Gold smelting how smelting gold works | BullionByPost
Smelting gold . It is thought that gold has been smelted since 6000 BC; first done by the Babylonians, in current day Syria. Today, it is a highly sophisticated treatment process, but the fundamentals for smelting gold remain the same. In very simple terms, the first step in smelting gold is pulverising or crushing the ore.