What else could we use our skills for? Jewelry was the answer.” ... and 18-karat gold large hoop earrings.Credit...Photographs via The Royal Mint Its new brand is called 886, for the year the ...

Its new purpose: recovering precious metals like gold from electronic waste and turning that metal into jewelry. Here’s how. In the late 1960s, the Royal Mint moved from its home in the Tower of ...

Its new purpose: recovering precious metals, like gold, from electronic waste. And turning that metal into jewelry. Here’s how. In the late 1960s, the Royal Mint moved from its home in the Tower ...

The rare diamond went up for auction in Geneva on Tuesday One of the world’s rarest blue ... rose gold band. “The stone made almost $44 million," Christie's international head of jewelry ...

A deliciously dimpled blue-grained dial on the new Royal Oak "Jumbo" ref. 16202, and a bright turquoise dial on the yellow gold Royal Oak 15550 are bright new interpretations of an old favorite.

But in a new initiative, the Royal Mint is saving gold from landfills and transforming it into jewelry. Like other elements and precious metals, gold is formed from the death of stars (supernovas).

and recovered gold is already being used in a luxury jewelry collection produced by the mint. "What we're doing here is urban mining," Inga Doak, the Royal Mint's head of sustainability ...

Held at the Royal Albert Hall ... the piece with suede pointed-toe pumps in the same electric blue, and layers of gold and diamond jewelry; the glimmering pieces included a thick diamond choker ...