How Metallurgists Affect the Sale of Scrap Gold

Mixing gold with another substance is way to change the color of the gold. Creating alloys also strengthens the gold because gold itself is a relatively soft metal. To say that making an alloy involves "mixing" may be oversimplifying the process, however. When making an alloy, a metallurgist has to be very careful. Even though we pretty much [ read more ]

How Rolled Gold is Made

You may have heard of rolled gold and perhaps you even have some jewelry that is made of rolled gold. This kind of gold is valuable and if you are interested in selling your gold, you may be interested to know that rolled gold is used to make jewelry of top quality. Jewelry that is made from rolled gold is known to stand the test of time. If you [ read more ]

Sell Your Out-of-Style Gold Jewelry

You may have some gold jewelry that is not particularly fashionable. This gold jewelry probably doesn't look very good on you anymore. However, the smile on your face after you take it to a gold buyer to get cash for gold will look very good on you. We won't ask your age, but it is likely that some of you were around in the 1970s. As you may [ read more ]

Gold Content Determines Value

While you may not be able to look at a piece of gold jewelry and estimate its selling price, you can approach the sale of your gold with an idea of how valuable your gold is. Most gold jewelry has information about its gold content marked on it somewhere. The inscription is usually rather small. It could be on the inside of a ring or on the clasp [ read more ]

What Is a Karat?

As you probably already know, the unit of measure for gold is a karat (sometimes spelled as carat). But do you know where this term originated? The carat as a unit of weight is based on the Carob seed or Carob bean. Carob seeds were used to merchants during ancient times in the Middle East and they come from Carob or locust bean trees. One [ read more ]

Gold As a Source of Wealth

For us, gold is an easily acquired and easily traded commodity. If you wanted to, you could probably go to a mall or jewelry store right now and buy gold. Then, if you decided that you wanted to sell gold, you could find a gold buyer and sell the gold you just bought. You could also sell any other gold jewelry you had at your house at the same [ read more ]

Have a Gold Christmas in July

For some people, July 25 is Christmas in July. It is not really clear where this all started, but everyone loves a holiday. There isn't snow falling outside (at least not for most of you), people are not singing carols or drinking eggnog, but that doesn't mean that you are not in the mind to give gifts. Perhaps you want to buy yourself or someone [ read more ]

Gold Hallmarks Contain Valuable Information

In general, a gold hallmark contains information about gold content and about the jeweler or manufacturer. Sometimes a hallmark is very straightforward. If a piece of jewelry is marked with 10k, 10kt or 10ct, then you know that this piece of jewelry is made with 10 karat gold. Here in the United States, every piece of gold jewelry will not have [ read more ]

Gold Buyers Accept Broken Gold Jewelry

When it comes to selling gold jewelry, a gold buyer will test for gold content, but a gold buyer will not insist that you bring in perfect pieces of jewelry. People who buy gold are not interested in the shape or design of your gold jewelry; the value is in the gold itself. You can bring broken or single earrings, necklaces and brooches with [ read more ]

Thieves Steal Equestrian Gold

When you see the term "equestrian jewelry," what do you think? That is a phrase that can mean more than one thing. It could refer to jewelry that is used to adorn a horse. Or it could be jewelry that people wear that has equestrian-themed designs: stirrups, saddles, bits, bridles, etc. Either way, when people want to craft fine jewelry for [ read more ]