Gold is Recycled in Many Ways

As we have mentioned before, gold has been recycled since ancient times. Gold is used over and over again. It is entirely possible that the gold jewelry you have in your home was once also at home with Incan kings, European royalty, the Pharaohs of Egypt, or one of Asia's rulers of antiquity.
When you decide to sell your gold you are [ read more ]

Gold Coins from Times Past Go Up for Sale

It is amazing how certain things for times that seem so very far away from our own manage to be kept up until this point. Then again, we really do not know anything about the number of objects of value that have been lost, so who is to say what we are missing out on.

Just last week there was an auction of items from times past and some of the [ read more ]

Cash for Gold is a Great Reward

Gold nanoparticles have been used to created innovative inventions and products that will change lives. Scientists have used gold electrodes for something the call "nano-soldering." Gold nanoparticles have also recently been used to make a sensor. The particles of gold in this device are one component in a machine that detects copper and will be [ read more ]

Captain Kidd's Gold, pt. 2

On Monday we discussed how the legend of Captain William Kidd makes him seem larger that life, when in reality he may not have been all that we have been lead to believe.

At one point, Captain Kidd had collected twenty for treasure chests tat contained gold, silver and other valuable items. Now as we all know, pirates tend to bury their [ read more ]

Pawning and Consiging Gold vs. Selling Gold for Cash

In the interest of time, and getting cash for gold quickly, you can turn to an online gold buyer. If you take your old gold jewelry and other gold items to a pawn shop, you are simply signing them over for a loan that may not even be to your advantage. And when you attempt to sell old gold jewelry on consignment, you will have to wait for the [ read more ]

Gold Price Affects Jewelry Manufacturers

We've talked about gold purity and how jewelry with the purest gold attracts the highest price. Twenty-four karat gold will sell for more than gold of lesser karat purity, like 18 karat, 14 karat or even 9 karat gold.

So now that we've talked quality, let's talk quantity. You already know that as a consumer you can get a sense of your gold's [ read more ]

If You're Shy, Sell Your Gold Jewelry Online

Recently, I read an article about a woman who said she felt intimidated by the idea of going to a jeweler to sell gold. Although there have been a lot of articles in the media lately about people hosting gold parties in their homes to sell gold and earn cash for gold, this is not something that every would feel comfortable doing. The woman who did [ read more ]

Touching Gold: The Story of King Midas--pt. 1

The story of King Midas from Greek mythology is well known, at least the basics of the story are well known--Midas was a king who was granted the extraordinary ability to turn anything that he touched into gold. But there is more to the story than that. Like most myths, the story also examines human frailty. We can be both noble and weak, as Midas [ read more ]

Gold as a Catalyst for Safer Chemical Processes

While we can hardly imagine someone including gold as a main ingredient in products such as glue, varnish or tires, we can tell you that gold may indeed one day be used as a catalyst in the production of such materials. When we buy things in the store, we hardly stop to think about how they are made. We just pick them up and go. Or if we worry [ read more ]

Touching Gold: The Story of King Midas, pt. 2

Earlier in the week, we discussed the Greek myth about King Midas. After an act of kindness, Midas was granted the ability to turn anything he touched into gold. At first Midas rejoiced because he was thinking about the value of gold and about all of the riches and cash for gold he would have once he was able to continuously sell gold. What he [ read more ]