Eco-friendly Jewelry: Facts for Gold Recycling

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As San Diego's #1 gold refinery and gold jewelry recycler, we here at San Diego Jewelry Buyers are big supporters of the "go green" movement. Those who want to sell scrap gold and recycle gold jewelry might find the following facts about the gold jewelry industry interesting.

1) A single gold ring leaves in its wake at least 20 tons of mine waste.

2) Open-pit gold mines ruin the landscape, opening up vast craters, flattening or even inverting mountaintops, and producing 8 to 10 times more waste than underground mining.

3) The world's largest open pit mine is the Bingham Canyon mine in Utah. Visible to astronauts from outer space, it measures 1 mile deep and 2.5 miles across.

4) When you sell gold jewelry (and platinum jewelry) which can be melted down, refashioned, or resold to an interested gold buyer, you can help reduce the need to expand mining activity around the world.

5) Metals mining employs just 0.09 percent of the global workforce but consumes up to 10 percent of global energy production.

6) Between 1995 and 2015, approximately half the gold produced worldwide has or will come from the lands of indigenous peoples.

7) Metals mining is the number one toxic polluter in the United States.

8) 120,000 tons of toxic waste spilled from the Baia Mare gold mine in Romania in 2000. It contaminated the drinking water of 2.5 million people and killed 1,200 tons of fish.

9) Only about 15% of gold consumption is recycled each year.

10) You CAN make a difference.

For information on how you can recycle gold for cash today, contact San Diego Jewelry Buyers for a free, no hassle, appraisal.

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