As with most production, making wire starts with the melting of the gold, silver or platinum.  Here the gold is in the crucible in the induction furnace and has mostly melted.  However, if you look closely, you can see on the top of the melt some scrap pieces from previous production that haven’t quite completely melted.  Melts for production may contain left over gold from previous manufacture, new pure (.9999+) gold with other metals (alloys) or a combination of both.

The gold is completely melted and being stirred to ensure homogeneity.  

The gold  is being poured into an upright rod form.

The rod after it has been removed from the form and cleaned. The large button shape at one end is where the melt filled the very top of the form that is flared to allow ease in pouring. 

The rod after the flared top has been cut off.  This must be done because this large end would never pass through the mill in the rolling process.

The first step is  to roll the rod through the square wire rolling mill where it takes on a square shape while lengthening considerably.

The rolling is continued until the square wire is just sufficiently larger  than the round wire desired so that when pulled through the round dies the final diameter desired will be achieved.

The end of the wire is crimped thus allowing it to enter the round wire die with ease.

The wire being inserted into the round wire die.

Here the wire is seen emerging from the other side of the die, ready for drawing.

The wire is drawn far enough on the draw bench to allow it to be mounted on the automated drawing machine.

Here the wire is being drawn through the die and wound.

From a different angle the wire can be seen being coiled as it is being drawn down.