Is Your Company Washing Gold Down the Drain?

Each day, many jewelry manufacturers flush gold and other precious metals down the drain. This frequently occurs when polishers wash their hands. Metal particles can be found in tumbling water and ultrasonic cleaning fluids as well. Wastewater may contain substantial amounts of gold; we discovered that a factory in New York was releasing over 3.5 ounces per week. That's no different than throwing away $250,000 every year! Metals in this water can also harm the environment and trigger government fines.

This problem remains quite common, even among manufacturers that use settling tanks. Ultrasonic fluids often prevent such tanks from working properly. These detergents cause gold and silver particles to float instead of falling to the bottom. Fortunately, it's possible to prevent this from happening. Factory owners may install separate equipment that collects and processes ultrasonic cleaning liquids. In addition to recovering metals from the used detergent, this strategy enables settling tanks to perform much more reliably.

It's very difficult to filter ultrasonic solutions; special equipment, training and chemicals are necessary. However, many jewelry manufacturers find that these investments quickly pay off. They can comply with state environmental regulations and recover at least 90 percent of the precious metals in their wastewater. Our company helps businesses that need effective gold refining and recovery systems. To learn more, please contact Jewelers Refining Group today.

Dependable Jewelry Stone Removal

Finding a dependable company to remove stones from your jewelry can be complicated. Removing stones like diamonds from platinum or gold can be incredibly time consuming and there are often issues like significant breakage. The staff at Jewelers Refining Group, Inc., want to help you avoid these issues, so we offer quality jewelry stone removal services. Whether you need help with a diamond ring or are looking for someone to assist you with your gemstone, you can feel confident that we are available to help. 

When you look up forums and informational articles about removing stones from jewelry, you often find a lot of people upset about a variety of issues, such as they have broken their stones or could not accomplish the task. It would be smart to have an experienced and dedicated jeweler work on your problem. You wouldn’t try and put your own roof on your house, would you? Then why would you try to be your own jeweler?

Jewelers Refining Group, Inc., is one of the leaders in the precious metal refining, recovery, and assaying business. We are located in Midtown Manhattan’s Diamond District, so you can feel confident that we have the skills and abilities to help you with jewelry stones and any other refining and recovery services you may have!

Precious Metal Recovery Methods – Recycling Sweeps

Making sure that you get the most from your metal is very important! Letting bits of precious metals go to waste is just not cost effective, so there are many different precious metal recovery and recycling methods out there to help you get the most out of your metal. One of the types of metal that the crew at Jewelers Refining Group, Inc., works with is metal sweeps.

Metal sweeps come from a variety of places. Silver sweeps are generally ashes or residue and are generally produced by photographic businesses. Additionally, jewelry sweeps are wipes and grindings that come from jewelers. Other selections include electronic scrap, car production, and glass industry sweeps.  Many of these fine particles may look like they should be thrown out, but can be collected, refined, and recycled. 

When collecting your sweeps, we recommend that goods are weighed before and after every step of the finishing process. This practice makes sure you can properly recover all of the sweeps from your metals and helps prevent issues like theft, inefficient recovery methods, and unscrupulous accountability from other refiners. 

Consider the sweeps that your business produces and start collecting today. When you have collected a substantial amount, you can contact us about our precious metal recovery and recycling programs.

Precious Metal Recovery & Recycling

It's a gold rush, an electronic gold rush and it comes in the form of end-of-life electronic devices. 

Confused? You may be surprised to learn that many of the everyday items you use contain precious metals. Gold, silver and other precious metals are critical elements to many industries, like the aforementioned electronics, as well as automotive manufacturing.

Electronic and automotive scrap can be an especially valuable source of metals. A variety of gold, silver and PGM materials may be suitable for recovery and recycling when these goods reach their end of life. One ton of mined gold ore contains approximately six grams of gold. The proportion of precious metals used in cars and televisions around the world is higher than that. That means that scrapped electrical and electronic goods can arguably be called a modern gold mine.  

Electronics recycling is extremely important in diverting solid waste and supporting zero landfill initiatives. Also highly important, electronics recycling helps eliminate toxic scrap. While it constitutes a minority of solid waste, it represents up to 70 percent of toxic waste.

E-waste is a particularly rich source of precious metals – with concentrations 40 to 50 times richer than naturally occurring deposits. 

Since 1996, Jewelers Refining Group, Inc., has been a leader in the precious metals refining industry. To learn more about precious metal recovery and recycling visit us at JRGInc.com.

The Process Of Gold Refining

Gold refining is the mechanical process of separating valuable gold from other waste materials. The end objective of gold refining is to be left with a piece of pure gold. The process of refining gold is a detailed and highly skilled one that requires a professional service to ensure the quality is above par and completely authentic. 

The process of refining gold begins by weighing the materials. Once the weight is established it is then put through the smelting process. During smelting, the refinery adds a flux material to the gold and melts it in a furnace. The gold will sink to the bottom of the furnace, while impurities float to the top, bound to the flux in the form of slag.

Once smelting is complete, the gold refinery has a solid piece of gold bullion. At this stage the bullion may still contain some impurities like trace metals, requiring it to go through a final refining stage where the facility melts the metal again and treats it to force silver and other materials to the top. In the final stage, the refinery will weigh the gold and test it to determine the level of purity.

While there doesn’t appear to be many steps in the refining process, it is actually a very difficult process and requires the utmost professional to ensure it is done properly.  Jewelers Refining Group, Inc. has been in the refining business since 1996 and is a leader in the refining industry. To learn more about our outstanding service and our commitment to integrity and fair pricing visit us at JRGInc.com.