Canadian Gold Calculator — Value in C$
Every number this tool returns is a Canadian dollar — no silent USD figures, no mental conversion. Enter a weight and karat and it prices the metal at the live world spot rate, then shows the band a realistic offer should land in.
Converted at US$1 = C$1.3939 (ECB reference rates, 2026-09-16). Spot itself is recorded from a live market feed every fifteen minutes. Melt value is the metal content, not an offer — real buyers pay a percentage of it.
Reading the result — including near the border
Melt value is the metal's worth, not an offer; Canadian buyers pay a percentage of it, and 65–80% is the sane band for ordinary scrap. One uniquely Canadian wrinkle: sellers in border cities sometimes compare quotes across the line. Nothing wrong with that — but convert both offers into a percentage of the same C$ melt value first, or the currencies will argue louder than the buyers do. Anything scoring near or above melt belongs in the coin and bar pages, not the scrap scale.
Pricing an inherited Canadian box
Canadian estates produce a characteristic mix, and the calculator handles only part of it. Run the 10K and 14K mall-era pieces through it as scrap. Set aside anything round and minted — Maple Leafs, RCM bars, sovereign-era coins — for the coin pages, where their market lives above melt. KP-stamped rings (14KP, 18KP) price as their plain karat: the P promises exactness, not plating. And anything unmarked joins the 10K pile until a test says otherwise. Ten minutes of sorting this way routinely changes what an estate is worth by more than any negotiation will.
Stamps, scales and the 10K floor
Weigh in grams, karat groups separately, stones excluded from your estimate. Canadian-market pieces mostly carry 10K/14K/18K marks — legally accountable when present under the Precious Metals Marking Act, absent on plenty of honest older pieces. Unmarked gold prices conservatively at 10K until tested. The full stamp-reading tour, including the KP “plumb” marks that surface in Canadian estates, lives in our 417 guide and the Canadian selling guide.
Questions people ask in Canada
- Will a buyer in Canada actually pay this melt value?
- No buyer pays full melt — the number exists so you can measure offers against it. Divide any offer by your melt figure: above 70% is competitive for ordinary scrap, under two-thirds earns a second quote.
- Is GST or HST added when I sell?
- No — a private individual selling personal jewellery or bullion is not making a taxable supply. Sales tax questions belong to the buying side, where 99.5%+ bullion is exempt and jewellery is not.
- My piece is stamped 417 or 585 — which karat is that?
- Fineness twins: 417 is 10K, 585 is 14K, 750 is 18K, 916 is 22K, 999 is 24K. Select the matching karat and the calculator does the rest; the stamps themselves are decoded across our karat guides.