Has not the artificier of wood made an image, or the goldsmiths, having melted gold, gilt it over, and made it a similitude?
But if this gadget can melt steel, it can melt gold.
"We won't have all these fireworks when we melt gold; it doesn't oxidise as easily as iron."
Crucibles have been found that were presumably used to melt gold obtained from trade with the Great Zimbabwe civilization.
By adding borax to the heavy mineral concentrate, the melting point temperature decreases, permitting small-scale miners to melt gold out of their concentrate.
A common practice in that period was also to melt gold into copper molds for convenience, derived from the sycee manufacturing method.
He can melt pure Venetian gold and recast it without the hole.
The sugar will start to melt and turn gold.
Your small fire, of course, would not melt even ordinary gold.
How hot did a fire need to be, to melt gold?