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Precious Metals is a jewelry store in Sudbury, MA. We build custom pieces that range from traditional to way out there. Check out our web store and gallery.

Old gold

This is a great blog post by the folks at Mardon Jeweler’s in Riverside, CA. It has a perfect example/explanation of why we never use “old gold” in our work, but use recycled gold in every piece we make. While re-using gold from your old jewelry to make new pieces sounds both practical and romantic, [...]

April 23rd, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Gold Buying/Selling, Love it!, What you should know. | Leave a comment

Gold Fever

This is an interesting article. We get a lot of people who ask “Why is gold going up in price?” The truth is, we’re a jewelry store, and the price of gold has way more to do with economics than it does with engagement rings.

November 26th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Gold Buying/Selling, News, What you should know. | Leave a comment

Ruby Red July

The birthstone for July is the ruby. A ruby is the red gem of the mineral corundum.The only natural gems harder than a ruby is a diamond and a moissanite. A ruby has a hardness of 9 on the mohs scale. All natural rubies have imperfections in them, such as color impurities and inclusions of [...]

July 10th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

The Other June Stones

Junes alternate birthstones.

June’s traditional birthstone is pearl (even though pearls are not a stones) but if you don’t like wearing pearls try out some of the alternative birthstones: Moonstone and Alexandrite.

Moonstone is a shimmering gemstone with a hardness of 6 on the Mohs scale. So wearers should be careful when handling it. Rainbow [...]

June 12th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Custom, Precious Metals!, stones, Uncategorized, What you should know. | Leave a comment

Sapphires

Corundum is a mineral formed from aluminum oxide and can come in a variety of colors when mixed with other minerals. If corundum is red and has a specific amount chromium oxide and a specific gravity of 4.0, it is the rarer corundum gem the ruby. Every other form of corundum is considered a sapphire, [...]

March 30th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Anomalous Jewelry

Wearing Inspirations and Paying Homage to a New Level

Most of the custom pieces we make at Precious Metals are non-representational, and use classic elements such as filigree, beading, and traditional diamond settings. Every once in a while we are commission to do a piece that uses images and symbols that are close to the [...]

March 27th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Custom, Info, Love it!, News, Precious Metals!, Uncategorized, What you should know. | Leave a comment

Aquamarine

This month’s birthstone is Aquamarine, but I’m sure any Pisces already knew that. Aquamarine is the lighter blue green variety of the mineral beryl while an emerald is the darker green variety. For those of you who are not aware beryl is a colorless mineral that acquires its color from naturally occurring impurities.

The word [...]

March 12th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Info, Precious Metals!, stones | Leave a comment