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Total newbie to this. We got a real nice "cowboy" furnace. My store buys scrap gold, and we want to test pieces we bought from time to time. So I put a jewelry piece in the crucible, probably weighed about 5 or 6 grams. Waited till we could see that it was melted. However when we went to pour it out into the mold, by the time it got half way out of the crucible, it just solidified, with some impurities on the surface. We were able to get it out and salvage it, but as a test, we weren't able to really figure out the fineness, it was too much of a mess. What should we do differently?