Australian Gold Calculator — Value in A$
Weight and carat in, melt value in Australian dollars out — plus the payout band a realistic buyer offer falls into. Rates come from the live world spot price and the dated exchange rate printed under the result.
Converted at US$1 = A$1.4021 (ECB reference rates, 2026-09-16). Spot itself is recorded from a live market feed every fifteen minutes. Melt value is the metal content, not an offer — real buyers pay a percentage of it.
What the result is — and is not
The melt figure is the metal's value at today's prices, not an offer. Australian buyers pay a percentage of it — refining, testing and margin come out — and the 65–80% band shown is the sane range for ordinary scrap lots. Offers below that band justify a second quote; pieces quoted near or above melt usually mean bullion or collectable value, which belongs in the coin and bar pages, not the scrap scale.
Carats in an Australian drawer
Expect a mix: 9ct from the British convention older Australian jewellery follows, 18ct in modern fine pieces, 22ct in family and bridal gold, 9999 in Perth Mint products. Australia has no compulsory hallmarking scheme, so a stamp is the maker's claim rather than a legal guarantee — select the stamped carat here for an estimate, and let a proper test settle anything unmarked or doubtful before you sell, as covered in the selling guide.
Questions people ask in Australia
- Is this what an Australian gold buyer will pay me?
- It is the number their offer should be measured against. Sellers who arrive knowing melt value and ask for offers as a percentage of it consistently do better than sellers who hear a dollar figure cold.
- My jewellery has no stamp — what do I select?
- Price it at 9ct for a conservative floor and have it tested. Unstamped gold is completely sellable in Australia; only the estimate, not the metal, is uncertain until the test.
- Is GST added or removed from this result?
- Neither — melt value is a tax-neutral metal value. GST questions belong to the buying side (jewellery attracts it, qualifying investment bullion does not); selling personal pieces is not a GST event.