We Buy All Purities – Gold jewelry is usually solid in alloy form equaling 24 parts. It is important to know how much gold your jewelry or item contains. One way you can figure out your item’s purity is to examine your piece for symbols such as hallmarks, which will use both the Karat and Numeric system to indicate the gold content within. 24 karat will be your purest form of gold. When you have a 14-karat piece of gold that means that its 14 part gold and 10 parts other metal (totaling 24 parts – your purest form).

Some other common percentages are:

• 18K = 75% Pure Gold
• 12K = 50% Pure Gold
• 9K = 33% Pure Gold (common in British and Antique Pieces. It is technically unlawful to represent 9K gold in the U.S. as being solid gold)

In Europe, you will see more of the 20k, 21k, and 22k pieces.

We Buy All Colors of Gold – The three most common colors of gold are yellow, rose, and white.

• Yellow gold gets its color by mixing 24k with alloy metals such as copper or zinc. These alloy metals will also add additional strength to the item.
• Copper mixed with pure gold is used to make the Rose gold color. The copper provides the rose-reddish color
• To make White gold you mix it with other white metals such as silver and palladium. White gold is often plated in rhodium, which is part of the platinum group, to give it more of the silvery-white coloring