Mint & Assay Office

In Paydirt, the Mint & Assay Office is available to assay, melt and refine gold. It can be found in-game as well as in the Paydirt dApp.

A mint & assay office was historically the place where miners would take their day's gold haul consisting of gold dust and gold nuggets to be melted down and turned into coins or gold bars.

At the in-game Mint & Assay Office, Gold Dust and Gold Nuggets or any other gold game item can be melted and cast into Gold Bars which can in turn be used to mint Gold Coins. On the web, the Mint & Assay Office deals with gold items in the form of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). Melting gold items on the web returns Paydirt Gold.

Miners may also assay Gold Nuggets and bottles of Gold Dust to determine purity. Assaying an item updates its associated metadata so thereafter the purity is known to everyone inspecting it. When Melting Gold Dust and Gold Nuggets, a melt loss typically between 5-10% will occur. Melt loss is due to the oxidation, vaporization or burning off of impurities in the dust. The Mint & Assay Office charges a 2.75% fee which is based on the amount actually charged by Moffat & Co., the most popular historic private mint during the California Gold Rush.