Many silver plated items bear the marks ‘EPNS’ that stand for Electro Plated Nickel Silver or ‘EP’ for Electro Plate. How do you date Walker and Hall silv...

Unlike other “essential” elements such as calcium, human bodies don’t need silver to function. Though silver was once used in medical applications, modern...

As of 2014, the United States was the world’s third largest producer of crude oil, after Saudi Arabia and Russia, and second-largest exporter of refined p...

5 Minerals that make beautiful jewelry Fluorite. Fluorite is known as the “Genius Stone” and the “most colorful mineral in the world.” Pyrite (Fool’s Gold...

Although the Earth’s crust averages a mere 0.004 grams of gold per ton, commercial concentrations of gold are found in areas distributed widely over the g...

The Klondike gold rush was decidedly more difficult than the one in California, since the prospectors were in -50 degree weather. They also had to used do...

Objectively speaking, the quality of gold jewellery in Florence is very high. Italian gold is 18 carat, not 10k or 14k as you often find outside of Italy ...

Gold Alloy Zinc, copper, nickel, iron, cadmium, aluminium, silver, platinum and palladium are all common metals alloyed with gold. Gold and copper are the...

The spot price of silver is determined by the forward month’s futures contract with the most volume. At times this contract can be the current month or it...

Before you start. Some fruit and vegetables need to meet certain standards to be imported into Great Britain. You can apply for a ‘certificate of conformi...