If you are smelting metal into ingots, you shouldn't be taking it to a scrap yard. You should be taking it to a refinery. Most refineries will Assay and pay you out a percentage, usually 80% on that assay and the rest once processed. Best way is to represent your material and be paid out in full on all values. Regardless, you shouldn't be selling ingots to scrap yards as they will not pay you the value, even if they do purchase the ingots. They are not usually equipped to re-melt and almost never to properly assay.
I cast and sell ingots of different metals, and alloyed metals but I have an established relationship with customers who request metals of specific alloys or purities. Al (Aluminum) ingots can easily be sold to backyard sand casters. Many people sell ingots on ebay at a premium, for example there are many examples of copper ingots being sold at x3 the scrap value.
Scott
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