Come to our Gem Lab located at 2501 Monument Avenue Richmond VA 23220, and we will show you the full value of your jewelry at no charge or obligation on your part to sell.

You do not have to take our word for it, we show our customers the full value of their items using third party references, (Red Book, Rapaport Diamond Price List, Kitco Gold Calculators, etc.) we carefully explain our profit margin and we put our quotes in writing. We understand you will need to shop around and do what's best for yourself. And we always honor our quotes when you come back.

We honor our margins of profit, on average we pay between 80-90% of the full value for scrap gold, broken, or outdated jewelry. If the market goes up while you are shopping around, you will be paid that much more when you come back. Because our margins are thin the quote is floating on the market price. For items we are buying for resale the price is fixed as we are not buying to recycle the metals.

I can give over the phone quotes on bullion, coins, scrap gold, silver, flatware, and Certified diamonds (GIA, AGS, HRD, IGI.). Diamond quotes sight unseen might change higher or lower depending on the accuracy of the report. Typically GIA and AGS reports are 99% accurate except for chipped, scratched, abraded, or broken diamonds.

We reuse all non-soldered scrap gold to manufacture new one-off designs for individuals designing fashion jewelry for everyday wear. For example, if the scrap is 24k gold, we add a new alloy to reduce the karat to 18k gold. In addition, we pay premiums for clean gold scraps like 18k wedding bands, 22k dowery jewelry, and bullion.

We send to the Refiner for repaired gold or jewelry soldered parts and get fresh gold casting grain in trade. If we ship an amount more significant than we can use in casting grain, we sell the gold to the Refiner. The Refiner makes more casting grain and mill products with the gold purchased.