Gold prices have sky rocketed in last one year, gold prices have shot several fold during this period, but buying gold jewellery has gone up, Gold being precious glittering metal attracts attention of men and woman. Gold is found deep below the earth and is state which is not recognizable by common man, these are highly sophisticated mines which dig several thousand tonnes of earth soil to find few grams of gold, gold ore needs to go purification process which is technically complex in which Nitric Acid is used to separate gold from slug, and further heated up to 2000 Celsius.

Today several Jewellery manufactures use recycled Gold metal which is re-extracted from Electronic circuit boards to antique and pre-owned gold ornaments, these cause less impact on the environment, according to National Geographic study some close to 80 percent of destructively mined gold is used for jewellery, the re-cycled gold is as pure as the gold extracted from the mines.

Virgin gold metal is very soft to survive the stress of forming gold jewellery, some part of copper is added to the Gold to retain rigidness, God is graded by unit called carat, a measure of purity one carat is 24 times the purity of mass, different country use different carat of gold, for example Europe uses 18 carat gold which is 75% fineness while Asian countries use 24 carat or 99.0% fineness gold.

Since century ornaments have fascinated mankind and was used as status symbol mainly wore by royal families, now Gold, Silver and Diamonds are very affordable and is affordable as well, thanks to modern mining techniques.