Can you melt silver at home for jewelry

Can you melt silver at home for jewelry<br /><br />I have recently found some Galena ore and am interested in melting it down to extract the silver to use in jewelry making. I tried to melt some by crushing it down and using a mapp gas torch but cant seem to melt enough at one time to seperate the different metals. Does anyone have any easy, at home, suggestions to melt larger amounts of ore other than constructing a forge. I am also aware of the alkaline properties of galena in that you do not want to breath any of the vapors or fumes from the ore.Complicated answer to a simple question :P Small amounts can be melted with a propane torch directly, a little more if you set up a furnace and crucible to help hold the heat longer look up ytong furnace on google. Simplest method? A dish/crucible hole in the end of a 2x4 that you dump the silver in think dime to quarter for amount, then heat for a long time with a propane torch. Don Noris ? has some info on this with broom/bean/straw/salt/pine needle castings if you look up his name or steam casting on google.Lor4 years agoReplyVery easily you can. Go to a hobby shop or look in a Business to Business phone book and see if you can find a melt pot. I worked at a company that designed and manufactured metal molds for machines and we had several melting pots, little pots on the production floor for the solderers. Not sure exactly what they needed them for, but I played around with them. You could drop a dime or nickel in and watch it melt. When we needed a new one, we drove to to this hobby shop down the street and picked up another one. Theyre readily available. Home Depot and other hardware stores may even sell them.