Japanese precious metals market trends (below) – Japan, gold precious metals – Jewelry Industry
The growth in investment market includes gold bars and jewelry, as well as physical sales, including sales and marketing hot outside, participating in gold (178, -2. 05, -1. 14 %, right) platinum accumulation plan (GAP) “and” gold accumulation plan (PAP) “investment has been rapidly expanding team. In addition, the establishment of “precious internet savings plan (GP), also showed good development prospects. This program of investment in precious metals, 1982, was officially launched in Japan after the popularity of last December to March this year, only four months time, added 30,000 customers. Read more
Precious metals in jewelry manufacturing and their best use
There are many articles on the precious metals on the web and some of them are professionals quiet, with many details and data. I will not try to give more. Here, I offer a simple version and avoiding jargon wide add my professional opinion on the best use of these metals in order to use its unique properties. This article focuses on the most popular precious metals for jewelry: gold, platinum, and the rapid growth in popularity of palladium. Pure gold and platinum are soft metals that are extremely dense. Pure gold is about two and a half times heavier than iron and pure platinum is slightly less than three. Although very beautiful color pure metals are not suitable for fine jewelry for its sweetness. soft metals are easily damaged, difficult to polish, not suitable for detailed work. This is why mixed (alloy) with other metals to give the desired properties. Read more


