Elvis's Gold Ring Has Left the Building

Earlier this month, someone paid $18,300 at auction for what is reputed to be a pile of Elvis Presley's hair. This was hair that was removed from his head when he joined the army in the 1950s.

Can you imagine paying that kind of money for hair? How do they even know that it really belonged to Elvis?  Why would hair clippings be worth that [ read more ]

Metal Detector Used to Find Gold Ring Worn for More than Half a Century

A couple who have been married for 68 years were very grateful when someone called in a man with a metal detector to find the wife's gold ring.

While waiting at a bus stop in Florida with her 92-year-old husband, an 88-year-old woman lost her gold wedding ring, as she was trying to swat away overgrown grass. She got down on her knees in the [ read more ]

Don't Hold Onto Heartbreak: Sell Gold From a Break Up

Not too long ago, a major publication published a comparison of two pop songs—one recent and the other from another era. The writer looked at the song “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” sung by Beyonce and “Band of Gold” sung by Freda Payne.  In both songs, the women sing about separating from suitors, but for very different reasons. In the [ read more ]

Winslet and DiCaprio Have Friendship, Causes and...Gold Ring in Common

Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio have shared the screen twice as a couple in memorable movies. First there was their unforgettable pairing in Titanic, the movie that helped cement their status as Hollywood stars. Years later, they went on to star in Revolutionary Road, directed by Winslet's husband, Sam Mendes. The first time around they were [ read more ]

Don't Forget that May is Gold Month

In case you did not know, May is gold month. And while there will be a lot of organizations that want to sell gold to you, we are one of the few that is willing to let you sell gold to us. And just think—you will not have to mount an advertising campaign or pay for commercials or newspaper ads. You get to sell gold without any overhead costs or [ read more ]

Household Treasure Hunts Can Earn You Cash for Gold

Earlier in the week, we told you about someone finding a valuable gold ring in an attic.Why is it that some of our greatest treasures are in out of the way parts of the house? Sure, you have the things you like to look at out, front and center, but do not forget the value in some of the things you own that you cannot see. In some ways these things [ read more ]

Valuable Gold Ring Found in Attic

In addition to the satisfaction of a job well done and being celebrated for athletic prowess, some sports also award top athletes with jewelry. The jewelry is a very tangible memento of their achievement—something they can keep long after their glory days are gone. Recently such a memento of a high point in an athlete’s career, a valuable gold [ read more ]

Construction Workers Unearth Ancient Gold Jewelry

A gold treasure that was unearthed in Bulgaria will be on display soon. It is believed that the gold jewelry was originally created and worn in the third century BC. The items in this stash of gold include a gold necklace, gold pendant, gold chain and two gold rings. It is believed that these pieces were once the property of a woman from the [ read more ]

Gold Jeweler Turns Sound into Sight

Gold is amazing. It can be formed into all kinds of shapes, but at the same, once a piece of gold jewelry is finished, there are no worries that it will lose the shape that the jeweler has given to it. Gold is very malleable and that is one of the many reasons why it is such a valued precious metal. When you look at its flexible nature along with [ read more ]

Sell Gold That is Tied to Unpleasant Memories

In the last blog post, we mentioned reading about a woman who felt apprehensive about going in person to a jeweler to sell gold. Well, another article we recently read told a very different story, one of a woman who was bold and unashamed about selling her gold jewelry.

The article started out discussing the ways in which people had managed to [ 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 ]

Expert Finds Gold Ring that May Have Belonged to Macbeth

An expert with a metal detector has discovered what he believes may be a gold ring that once belonged to Macbeth. After analyzing the structure and craftmanship of the ring, this expert is convinced that it may have once adorned one of the fingers of the man who was once the King of Scots. He marveled at the beauty of the ring, which weighs in at [ read more ]

Ancient Gold vs. Antique Gold

The other day we talked about ancient gold and the gold we referred to was truly ancient, as in it was thousands of years old. The pre-Hispanic gold items that were recently donated to the country of Mexico have truly outlasted the people and the culture that produced them. They are a lasting legacy and a tribute to the creativity of ancient [ read more ]

Lost Gold Ring is Found and Returned

It is always exciting when lost gold jewelry is returned to someone who lost it many years ago. Recently, two young boys in Texas chose to return a gold ring to its owner rather than keep that gold ring for themselves. This was very noble of them. These days it is all too easy for someone to play “finders keepers.” The man who lost his gold ring [ read more ]

The First Lady's Inauguration Night Gold Jewelry

Before the 44th President of the United States was elected, all the fashion world was buzzing with talk and speculation about what the new First Lady would wear to the Inauguration and to the balls taking place that night.

With all that talk about dresses, people seemed to forget that no outfit is complete without jewelry.  Gold jewelry works [ read more ]

Charity Wine Festival Has Gold on the Menu

Now if I told you about a charity wine festival, what kind of items would you assume would be available for purchase of auction at such as event? I imagine that you would say that wine would be the main item on the auction menu at a charity wine festival. But what about gold? Would expect to see gold available to purchase at a charity wine [ read more ]

Could You Be Sitting on a Gold Mine of Your Own?

On Monday we took at look at Lander County Nevada where the economic woes that have prevailed in the rest of the country have had the opposite effect. Because the economy is down people buy gold and when people buy gold the demand for gold increases. This helps a place like Lander County, Nevada to prosper because this area is rich in gold. When [ read more ]

Gold Nanowires Used to Fight Cancer

Gold and gold nanoparticles are the continuous subjects of scientific research because scientists have found that gold is useful in so many ways.

One of science's latest findings is that gold nanowires may prove useful in combating cancer. Researchers at the University of Idaho have been experimenting with making gold nanowires that can [ 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 ]

People Are Selling Gold for a Variety of Reasons

Last week, an article about how more and more people have decided to sell gold for scrap hit the wires, courtesy of Reuters new service. The article noted that people are going through attics and jewelry boxes looking for old gold for a variety of reasons--to help with fixed expenses or to buy gifts for the holidays. And a gold buyer will not [ read more ]

Red and Rose Gold are All the Rage

One news outlet recently reported that reddish gold is the latest "it" color for making gold jewelry. As with all fashion forecasting, hot colors come and go in and out of style and to be honest, no one really knows why. Whatever the case, colors go in and out of fashion, but the value of gold itself does not come into question.

Rose and red [ read more ]

Metal-detecting Hobbyists Find Lost Gold Ring

Some of us have hobbies that we find very enjoyable and they help us to relax, but these hobbies do not always help other people in direct ways. It you like to knit and you knit someone a scarf, then that is an instance where your hobby helped you and someone else can say they benefited from your hobby in a tangible way.

But what if your hobby [ read more ]

Many Colors of Gold

The good thing about gold is that it is quite malleable, thus its use in a number of industrial applications. However, when it comes to making jewelry, sometimes jewelers like to mix gold with other metals to make studier pieces of jewelry. At other times, they decide to mix gold with other metals because they like the effect: gold is not afraid [ read more ]

1907 Gold Coin Design Finally Brought to Life

When you think about someone designing gold, what comes to mind? Perhaps you think of gold jewelry such as gold necklaces or gold earrings or maybe even gold watches. Whether a gold piece is designed well or poorly, you can still sell gold to a gold buyer to get cash for gold.

But what happens when the gold itself is the cash? Did you ever [ read more ]

Gold Jewelry on Display

The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore has recently mounted a show called "Bedazzled: 5,000 Years of Jewelry." This show, which runs until early next year, wants to give jewelry some of the attention it deserves. Since jewelry is wearable art, it seems that some people question its value as real art. Surely all of us have seen a spectacular piece of [ read more ]

Nuggets of Gold

A gold nugget is a piece of gold that occurs naturally. Sometimes gold nuggets can be found in what is left behind after mining operations. They can also be unearthed by what is called placer mining, which is mining done in places where water has left deposits. In some instances, water under pressure can be used to get to the precious metals the [ read more ]

Gold Earphones

One of gold’s most salient properties is that it can be easily manipulated. And this is not a bad thing. Since gold is not a person, it is not manipulated in the sense of being taken advantage of…rather than say that one can manipulate gold, it is better to say that gold is very malleable in comparison to other metals.

Because gold is so very [ read more ]

As Good as Gold?

Is anything really 'as good as gold?' Some of us would like to think so, but gold is really the only thing that is as good as gold. As you know, this is a rather literal reading of this phrase. Saying that something is as good as gold is to say that it is highly valued, just as gold is. People do not describe items they prize as being as good as [ read more ]

Why Do People Use Gold for Dental Work?

We use gold as part of dental work now, but did you know that this is actually a rather ancient practice? There is evidence that people were using gold in dentistry as far back as the seventh century. At that time people used a wire fashioned from gold to keep replacement teeth where they wanted them. To show you just how far we have come, the [ read more ]

How to Set Up a Gold Mine

We have often discussed how you can sell gold and told you a lot about the various ways that gold can be used. But how does all of this gold get to the point where it can be used and perhaps sold? How does gold go from being in the earth to being on someone's wrist, used in scientific experiments or sold to a gold buyer to get cash for [ read more ]

Writing with Gold

Depending on your age and experience, you may be familiar with the fountain pen. Before we had disposable pens that were ready to help us write at a moment's notice, one of the writing instruments that people used were called fountain pens.

With the very first fountain pens, you had to dip the pen in ink in order to write. Later there were [ read more ]

A Little Gold Goes a Long Way

Gold is used in fuel cells, but you may be wondering what exactly it is that fuel cells do. A fuel cell's basic function is to change chemical energy into electrical energy. A typical fuel cell will have a number of bipolar plates. These bipolar plants serve to encourage corrosion resistance and to cut down on contract resistance to help the [ read more ]

Get Cash for Unused Gold

Sometimes you go looking for one thing and find something you didn't even know you had. Often, that is the best way to find something: look for an entirely different thing.

A married couple in Great Britain managed to strike gold while there were out searching for metal with a metal detector. They were looking for metal, but they probably were [ read more ]

Gains in the Price for Gold

One respected economic news bureau just reported that gold is showing remarkable resiliency, despite the troubles in the financial sector. In fact, gold prices have actually shown some gains. This actually isn't surprising because gold is valued in good and bad times. And gold also has a tendency to do well when things are uncertain in the [ read more ]

A New Use for Gold

Just the mention of nanoparticles brings up images of things that are very, very tiny. In the past on this blog, we have mentioned that gold nanoparticles have been used in science and technology in a variety of exciting ways. For example, scientists have been looking into ways to use gold nanoparticles to eradicate cancer. Gold is used in the [ read more ]

Gold Can Help You Breathe A Little Easier

Researchers at a British university have recently published findings from a study they conducted and found that gold particles could possible be used to help firefighters breath a little easier. Gold acts as a catalyst and it can help turn carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide. By placing gold particles in firefighters' masks, these public servants [ read more ]

Gold As a Symbol of Quality

There is no doubt that if you want to sell gold, you recognize that gold is a very valuable commodity. You would not be attempting to take your gold jewelry or gold coins to a gold buyer unless you knew that you would be able to get cash for gold.

If you have gold that you are not using and have not thought about selling it, why not sell your [ read more ]

Put Your Gold to Good Use

Not to get too philosophical, but gold has various life cycles. Just as people go through different phases and play different roles at different times of life, gold does the same. Gold is very malleable and you can benefit greatly from it in different forms.

At one point, gold is sitting as an untouched natural resource. Then, after it is [ read more ]

Bringing Home the Gold from the Olympics

The other day an article in the satirical news publication The Onion joked that President Bush had asked the U.S. Olympic team to bring home the gold, literally. The joke was not that he was expecting the athletes competing in this summer's Olympics to return to the U.S. with gold medals, but that he literally wanted them to return from China with [ read more ]

When You Sell Gold, You Gain

Earlier this week, we discussed how you should not let pride get in the way when it comes to selling gold when it has little sentimental value. The monetary reward that you receive when you exchange money for gold is well worth the lingering doubts about parting with it.

Two recent news stories have popped up that deal with people having to [ read more ]

Don't Keep Gold You Don't Love--Sell It

Recently, actress Naomi Watts told one media outlet about her favorite piece of jewelry--a gold necklace. This necklace has great sentimental value because it was a present from her partner Liev Schreiber. Schreiber and Watts have a one year old son named Alexander and the necklace she receive from Schreiber pays tribute to her role as a mother to [ read more ]

Scientists Can Now Weigh One Gold Atom

When you decide to sell your gold jewelry and take it to a gold buyer, that person will have to find some way to figure out just how much pure gold is in your gold jewelry. There are various methods. One common method is to take a scraping of the gold, and melt it down to separate the gold from other metals.

One thing a gold buyer is not likely [ read more ]

Miners Wastes Gold, But You Don't Have To

When you sell gold to a gold buyer and get cash for gold, you are helping to keep gold circulating. The gold jewelry you have contains gold that has already been mined. It ia hard to tell exactly when the gold in your gold jewelry was mined. But by selling it and allowing someone else to melt it down and reuse it, you are recouping some of the [ read more ]

Gold Jewelry: A Good Return

Recently, a British man found what was (at least to him) a sunken gold treasure.

Sixty-seven years after this man, a lieutenant, lost his watch in the sea it was returned to him. The gold watch had been lost as the man has thrown a line to shore while aboard his ship. Workers who were in that same harbor found the gold watch all these decades [ read more ]

Single Mother Sells Gold to Save Car

One news outlet in Florida recently decided to feature a single mother in a story about selling gold for money. The woman in the story has recently moved to take a job in the area and with the recent economic downturn, she was facing tough times. In order to ease her financial burdens, she decided to sell some of her old silver and gold [ 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 ]

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 ]

Are Large Gold Chains Back in Style?

Earlier in the week, we told you about one recording artist's record-breaking gold: a gold chain that was so large it attracted the attention of the Guiness Book of World Records.

And a while back, we looked at one source of revenue you can consider if you are looking to sell gold jewelry: chains that are out of style. Specifically, chunky [ read more ]

Record-breaking Gold Jewelry

How much gold is too much? That is a good question. And the answer depends on who you are, where you are and what you are doing with that gold. If you are a gold buyer, then they answer is that you can never have too much.

Lil'Jon a rapper, celebrity and television personality has made it into the record books for his larger than life gold [ read more ]

Make the Most of the Gold You Have

Throughout this summer and the upcoming fall, we are sure to get our fill of political campaigns, photo opps, speeches and political promises. But just for a moment, lets take a trip back in time to another presidential campaign.

In 1964, Barry Goldwater was a hopeful contender for the presidency of the United States. Goldwater was a [ read more ]

Selling Gold: A Crowning Achievement

This year's Miss Universe will wear a crown of gold that was manufactured in Vietnam. The crown is made out of 18 karat white and yellow gold. It has an estimated value of $120,000. For the Vietnamese, yellow gold is an indication of prosperity. The crown also has $1000 gemstones. The designer says that the crown's structure is a symbol of [ read more ]

Selling "Invisible" Gold for Profit

They say that seeing is believing. One of the most important things about gold is actually seeing it. Since ancient times, people have admired the brilliance and beauty of gold.But what if there was a kind of gold you could not see? Sounds a little philosophical doesn't it...kind of like asking if a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound? [ read more ]

Why Pawn Gold When You Can Sell It?

Some of you may think that taking your gold jewelry to a pawnbroker is a quick way to get some extra cash. While a pawnbroker may know something about the value of your jewelry, they are in the re-sale business. They are not necessarily in the business of refining gold.

A gold buyer is in the business of obtaining gold that can be reduced to [ read more ]

Selling Gold vs. Selling Black Gold

There is a definite relationship between gold and "black gold." If you didn't know, oil is often referred to as black gold. The prices of the two are related: while oil prices remain stable, gold will sell for a decent price. When oil prices go up and things look shaky, the demand for gold increases. Even though our currency is no longer backed by [ read more ]

Selling Gold to an Online Retailer

You can sell gold jewelry by taking it to a gold buyer in person. The gold buyer will test your gold jewelry to see how much of it is pure gold. Once the gold buyer knows just how much gold can be extracted from each piece of jewelry, then they can tell you how much they are willing to pay for the gold you brought it.

Another way to sell gold [ read more ]

Gold is Environmentally-Friendly and Efficient

If you have taken the opportunity to sell gold to a gold buyer lately, then you have firsthand experience of just how much gold is worth these days. The price of gold is rather high, so now is a good time to take advantage of it.

There are so many uses for gold, it is simply unbelievable. One cannot deny that gold is infinitely valuable, in all [ read more ]

Getting Money for Found Gold

At the end of last week, an amateur historian found a gold ring in Scotland that is believed to be about 700 years old. The ring, which was found while this amateur historian was out doing some metal detecting, also has sapphires. It has been described as a bishop's consecration ring from the 13th century.

In Scotland all such discoveries are [ 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 ]

Gold Smelting Brings Out Gold Jewelry's Potential

After you sell gold to a gold buyer, smelting is one of the ways it may be treated. Unless your gold jewelry is pure gold, it contains other metals. A gold refiner works to separate the gold from those other metals. Gold that is not being made into something like a coin or a piece of jewelry is most valued in its purest state. This does not mean [ read more ]

Gold in the Biomedical Field

Last week, we discussed how gold can be used in the construction of space shuttles. Gold is used in various branches of the sciences, including the biomedical field.

If you have gold jewelry, then you know the quality and lasting value of gold. This is why you can sell gold jewelry, even if you have had it for years. Those same properties apply [ read more ]

Gold is Used to Build Space Ships

Did you know that gold has been an integral part of missions of outer space? It is true. Space programs make use of Very thin gold sheets that measure at 0.15mm thick. These thin sheets of gold are used as a radiation shield. The gold is used to deflect the sun's high temperature rays. (Now don’t go thinking that you can use gold as a sunscreen. [ read more ]

Sell Your Unused Gold Chains

You may remember the fairy tale story about Rumplestiltskin—it involved a young woman tasked with spinning straw into gold. She could not complete this task on her own, but she was able to present the required gold with the help of Rumplestiltskin, And as you may also remember, Rumplestiltksin did not work for free.

The thought of gold being [ read more ]

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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

Selling Gold Dental Work

Just as people are going through their houses searching for gold jewelry that they are willing to part with to take to a gold buyer, your house may hold another source of gold that you can sell: gold dental work.

The reason why people have to search through their old possessions for dental gold is that gold is not used as often to make crowns [ read more ]

May is Gold Month

In case you didn't know, May is Gold month. It is a time set aside to appreciate the beauty of gold and gold jewelry. Gold Month began in 2004 and it is still going strong. Some jewelers are launching new gold jewelry collections and reminding people that gold is a great way to add some shine and dazzle to their personal wardrobes. Gold also makes [ read more ]

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 ]

Methods Used to Measure Gold Content

In an earlier post about determining gold worth, it was mentioned that as a consumer, you really cannot determine how much gold is in a piece of gold jewelry. Now let's talk a little more about how gold content is measured. You'll have a better appreciation of what a gold buyer does.

Measuring gold content or the 'fineness' of a piece of gold [ read more ]

Gold Recycling

Yesterday was Earth Day and many people have recycling on their minds. When people think of recycling they do not think of something like gold, but gold recycling has been going on since ancient times. The gold industry has made efficient use of its product by re-purposing it and putting it back into the market. Gold is not something that is used [ 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 ]

Gold Jewelry Comes in Different Colors

There are so many different types of gold jewelry and our last post went over gold purity, gold plating and overlays. As you choose gold jewelry you want to sell, knowledge about different types of gold is invaluable.

Gold also comes in quite a few different colors. The color of gold that is the most well known and the one you see more of than [ read more ]

Types of Gold Purity in Gold Jewelry

Gold jewelry has an ancient heritage. Gold jewelry has been valued by the Incas, Egyptians, Greeks and Romans for its warm luster, rarity, and ability to be molded and hammered into many shapes and designs.

Today, gold has the same appeal that it has had for the ancients; beauty and value. However not all gold colored jewelry is considered true [ read more ]