Precious Metals
Precious metals are the backbone for the bulk of our jewelry. Use this guide to learn about gold, silver, platinum, and other precious metals that are used in jewelry.
Popular Jewelry Metals
Gold, platinum, silver, titanium... Here are the facts you need to choose the "best" metal for your next piece of jewelry.
Gold, platinum, silver, titanium... Here are the facts you need to choose the "best" metal for your next piece of jewelry.
What Karat Weight Is All About
Advice to help you buy gold jewelry. You'll know exactly what you're buying when you learn the facts about the terms used to describe gold.
Advice to help you buy gold jewelry. You'll know exactly what you're buying when you learn the facts about the terms used to describe gold.
Aack! That Ring Turned My Skin Green
Has your jewelry ever turned your skin green or black, or stained it some other color? Here's why jewelry discolors skin, along with some solutions to help you avoid the problem.
Has your jewelry ever turned your skin green or black, or stained it some other color? Here's why jewelry discolors skin, along with some solutions to help you avoid the problem.
Best Jewelry Metals for New Piercings
Only certain types of metals are recommended for new body piercings. Here's a list of metals that are good choices for body piercings and a list of metals that you should avoid.
Only certain types of metals are recommended for new body piercings. Here's a list of metals that are good choices for body piercings and a list of metals that you should avoid.
Jewelry Company Recalling Charms
Hirschberg Schutz & Co. Inc., of Warren, NJ, is voluntarily recalling about 2.8 million metal charms that contain high levels of lead, which can be a poison risk for young children.
Hirschberg Schutz & Co. Inc., of Warren, NJ, is voluntarily recalling about 2.8 million metal charms that contain high levels of lead, which can be a poison risk for young children.
Allergies to Metals in Jewelry
Learn which metals used in jewelry are most likely to cause an allergic reaction in some people.
Learn which metals used in jewelry are most likely to cause an allergic reaction in some people.
Back to the Future Bronze Age
Maggie Snell and Vanessa Paterson furnish an article that's a series of photos and text of bronze, copper, and brass jewelry.
Maggie Snell and Vanessa Paterson furnish an article that's a series of photos and text of bronze, copper, and brass jewelry.
Jewelry Metals
Here's a description of several metals used in the jewelry industry.
Here's a description of several metals used in the jewelry industry.
Neon Rainbow
Many jewelry designers are choosing the metal niobium when they want to add a splash of color. From Lapidary Journal.
Many jewelry designers are choosing the metal niobium when they want to add a splash of color. From Lapidary Journal.
What is Mokume?
Learn more about this process, where thin layers of metals are fused together with heat, then manipulated to form a burled wood-like pattern.
Learn more about this process, where thin layers of metals are fused together with heat, then manipulated to form a burled wood-like pattern.
What You Should Know About Titanium
Titanium is growing in popularity. It's hypoallergenic, which means most people can wear it with no problems. This page describes the color variations we see in titanium and gives a little information about caring for the metal.
Titanium is growing in popularity. It's hypoallergenic, which means most people can wear it with no problems. This page describes the color variations we see in titanium and gives a little information about caring for the metal.