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*Caveat on using the term “recycled gold”:

While I am very careful to source my precious metals only from SCS® certified suppliers (SCS® stands for Supply Chain Sustainability; they are the global leader in the field of sustainability standards and third-party certification). Most of my precious metals suppliers are also members of the Responsible Jewellery Council. However, I want to point out that ‘recycling gold' is not what is commonly understood by the term.

True recycling avoids things ending up in landfills. Gold, of course, wouldn’t.

Instead, gold is simply melted, refined and repurposed.

Although SCS® certified refineries must maintain auditable records of their suppliers, there are loopholes globally which make it very easy for gold from unregulated and/or illegal sources to enter their supply chain.

This makes even 'certified recycled' gold untraceable.

Further reading:
Is Recycled Gold Ethical?
Materials, Sustainability, & Fairmined Metals

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Canada Day weekend

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What better thing to work on this Canada Day weekend, but Maple Leaf rings!!

Here is a photo of the rings with the ‘sprues’ still attached. The sprue is where the wax flows out in the lost-wax process, and where the molten silver is poured into the one-off plaster cast. The sprue is clipped short after casting, and later needs to be sawn off, filed, and sanded.

These are the same rings you saw coming out of my rolling mill (in wax) in a previous posts:

unfinished Maple Leaf rings on my bench, ready to be worked on

And here are some that didn’t make it through the casting process :'(

these ones broke in the process of casting; I won't be able to fix them

So cutting sprues off the good ones, shaping and cleaning them up,  is what I will be doing on Canada-Day weekend!

Can’t be all work and no play, though: I’ll be taking a drive to the Southshore this evening to visit with our friends, talented musician, writer, and sailor Tom Gallant and his wonderfully outrageous wife Lissa (read the story of their live-changing experience in Tom’s book A Hard Chance: Sailing Into the Heart of Love).

I really look forward to visiting with these marvelous friends!  Hope you are having a great weekend, too.

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