Gold & Metals
What Is Sterling Silver and What Does 925 Mean?
What sterling silver is, why the 925 standard of 92.5% silver became universal, how to read silver marks, and how to care for sterling jewellery properly.
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Gold & Precious Metals
Indicative gold prices in Sri Lanka, what 916 and 750 mean, karat versus fineness, making and wastage charges, hallmarks, testing, and guides to white gold, rose gold, platinum and silver.
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Gold & Metals
What Is Platinum and How Does It Compare with Gold?
What platinum is, why the naturally white metal is usually 950 fine in jewellery, how it differs from white gold in wear and weight, and what to check.
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Gold & Metals
Gold Rate per Gram in Sri Lanka: How It Is Calculated
How the gold price per gram is derived from the international spot price, adjusted for karat purity, and why the price you pay in a jewellery shop is higher.
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Gold & Metals
Gold Karat vs Fineness: What Is the Difference?
Karat and fineness are two ways of writing the same gold purity. How the 24-part karat scale maps to parts-per-thousand fineness, with a full conversion table.
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Gold & Metals
What Are Gold Hallmarks and How Do You Read Them?
What gold hallmarks are, how independent assay marks differ from a maker's purity stamp, how regimes vary by country, and what Sri Lankan buyers should check.
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Gold & Metals
22K Gold in Sri Lanka: 916 Purity and Why It Dominates
What 22K gold is, why its 916 fineness makes it 91.6% pure, and why it is the standard purity for traditional jewellery across Sri Lanka and South Asia.
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Gold & Metals
What Is 14K Gold?
What 14K gold is, why its 585 fineness equals 58.5% pure gold, where this durable purity dominates, and how it compares with 18K and 22K jewellery.
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Gold & Metals
What Is Silver and How Is It Used in Jewellery?
What silver is, how fine silver at 999 differs from sterling at 925, why silver tarnishes and how to care for it, and what silver jewellery buyers should check.
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Gold & Metals
What Is Rose Gold?
What gives rose gold its pink colour, how copper content shapes its shades and durability, and what buyers should know about karat, wear and care.
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Gold & Metals
What Is White Gold?
What white gold is made of, why it is usually rhodium-plated, how it compares with platinum and silver, and what maintenance owners should expect over time.
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Gold & Metals
How Is Gold Tested? XRF, Touchstone, Acid and Fire Assay
The four main ways gold purity is tested, XRF, touchstone, acid and fire assay, what each can and cannot tell you, and when a buyer should insist on a test.
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Gold & Metals
What Are Wastage Charges on Gold Jewellery?
What wastage charges are, why the traditional allowance for gold lost in manufacture persists, how shops apply it today, and the questions buyers should ask.
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Gold & Metals
What Are Making Charges on Gold Jewellery?
What making charges are, how jewellers structure them per gram, as a percentage or flat fee, why they vary so widely, and how buyers can compare and negotiate.
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Gold & Metals
How Is Gold Jewellery Priced in Sri Lanka?
How a gold jewellery price is built: metal value by weight and purity, making charges, any wastage, stone value and fees, and how to check each line yourself.
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Gold & Metals
What Does 750 Mean on Gold?
Why gold jewellery is stamped 750, how the mark equals 18-karat purity at 75% gold, where it appears on fine and gem-set pieces, and how to verify it.
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Gold & Metals
What Is 21K Gold?
What 21K gold is, why its 875 fineness equals 87.5% pure gold, where this purity is popular, and how it compares with the 22K standard used in Sri Lanka.
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Gold & Metals
What Is 18K Gold?
What 18K gold is, why its 750 fineness means 75% pure gold, and why it is the preferred purity for gem-set, white and rose gold jewellery worldwide.
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Gold & Metals
What Is 24K Gold?
What 24K gold is, why 999 fineness means around 99.9% pure gold, where the softest and purest grade is used, and how it compares with 22K and 18K jewellery.
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