Recycling of jewellery and gold

April 9, 2011

Re-model your ring

Make that old diamond ring into something new. Look at the great ring a customer did this week. She had a beautiful 1.35ct. diamond and wanted a new setting that had a little bit of a “bling” factor. Our designer brand Simon G provided the new setting made to order in her finger size and modified to hold her diamond.  We set her stone into the mount and now she has a new ring for a fraction of the cost of buying the ring complete.

March 30, 2011

Gold recycling

Jewellers are among the original environmentalists. For hundreds of years we have been saving the dust we create to recycle the gold and silver trapped within. From saw blades to sandpaper everything gets recycled. In more modern times we also extract the small amounts of silver contained in tiny watch batteries helping to divert them from landfills and the need to source new supplies of silver. At Bill Le Boeuf Jewellers we have 100’s of estate rings waiting to be refashioned into something new. We encourage our customers to consider an estate diamond to use in a new ring (after all a diamond is already billions of years old). Then recycle the old setting to help offset the cost of the new ring. It is a win win. You save some money because you are using an estate diamond and you help out mother earth by using gold that has already be mined. If you have any old jewellery or gold of any quality, bring it in to sell or trade for something new or something new to you.