With the economy in a crunch, so many people are experiencing a serious financial strain on their wallets. I can’t tell you how many friends of mine have finally started to try to sell their wedding bands from their first marriage because they are hoping to be able to sell their gold and diamonds for cash. Selling your gold and diamonds for cash can be hard if you want to try to get even a decent proportion of the money you paid for the jewelry back.If you want to sell your gold and diamonds for cash, there is a really great Canadian company called dollars4gold.com who will buy any precious metals such as gold, silver, and platinum. However, they do not buy diamonds or other precious stones. So if you want to sell your gold and diamonds for cash, the best way is to remove the stones that you believe are valuable from the metal. Dollars4gold.ca has its own refinery, so they have no middlemen, and can often give you the best price for your gold. It does not matter if the jewelry items are broken or otherwised damaged, dollars4gold.ca pays you on the quality and amount of gold or other precious metals that you send in. Gold is currently selling higher than it has for decades, so now is a really great time to sell your gold and diamonds for cash.And, dollars4gold.ca lets you try out their system totally risk free! They send you a postage-paid mailer, and you fill it with the items you want to sell. They will send you a check in as little as a couple of days for those items. If you don’t agree with how much they want to pay you for your jewelry, you just mail the check back and they will send your jewelry back.

At one time the average person might have thought that a gold refinery was just taking advantage of the person. This was because the buy price on that old scrap gold was so low. Now this has all changed. If you happen to take all that scrap gold you have lying around down to one of those gold refiners, you will be pleasantly surprised.

In case you didn’t know a gold refiner will give you the absolute best gold price for all that scrap gold you have lying around because there are no middle men. The gold refiner melts old gold down and makes it ready for new jewellery pieces or other products.

The gold refiner gives you cash for that unwanted gold. You know the broken chains, bracelets, old fashioned rings, etc. The stuff you no longer want or will use. The gold refiner assesses the gold and then prices it and determines how much you can receive. There are many determining factors in the price you get.

Gold refiners accept any type of gold or gold jewellery. They then melt it down, reuse it or sell it to jewelers who make new jewellery pieces. You are paid depending on the weiht and the worth of the gold. In some cases, jewellery gold pieces are mixed with other types of metal. Most gold refineries will accept jewellery with gold mixed with other materials, however you will only be paid for the gold material in most cases. When you speak to the gold refiners you should ask about this before sending them your gold.

Gold refiners melt down the gold and add other chemicals to separate the material so they can determine what the real gold is. Then the real gold is assessed and a value is placed on the gold.

Almost every type of gold can be refined. Gold refiners work with old coins, scrap gold, materials that have gold in them, dental fillings, gold bullion, rings, jewellery, gold bars, etc. Of course, gold refiners will have limitations as to what they will work with.

Today, you no longer have to visit gold refiners in person, you can contact them online and offer them what you have. They will tell you what types of gold they will take, how to send it in to them and what type of service they offer. Obviously, you don’t want to send your gold into the first gold refiner you find, but do some research into different gold refiners, contact more than one and see what they have to offer you. The good news is that you can sell all of your old gold whether it be in coins, bars, fillings, old jewellery, new jewellery you don’t like or whatever you have and you can make a nice profit from your sale too.