Category Archives: Style

Blue diamonds are the rarest kind. Roughly one in every 200,000 diamonds has the tint that makes the Hope Diamond so magical and made us swoon over Kate Winslet in Titanic. A new study in the journal Nature gives us the best idea yet how it happens, and how they got here. Researchers analyzed 46 […]

Most jewelry stores, including Dallas Gold & Silver Exchange, have friendly but efficient security measures in place. The better we protect our beautiful merchandise, the more we can offer amazing deals, and we do. But maybe we need to focus on pest control as well. That’s the lesson from the current viral video of an ant […]

There’s a term in the precious metals business that you may be hearing a lot more of in the coming weeks and months: peak gold. That means that the world’s gold production has hit its highest level and has begun to level off or decline. Some experts say peak gold is already here. “Gold produced […]

You’re looking at the new Guinness World Record holder for most cut diamonds in a single ring. Vishal Agarwal and Khushbu Agarwal, two jewelers in Surat, India, seized the honor by designing and creating an 18 karat rose gold ring composed of 48 petals embedded with a total of 6,690 cut diamonds. It took them six […]

Two months after the royal wedding, the Meghan Markle Effect is still in full swing. That means that whenever royal watchers figure out where she bought today’s outfit, it sells out in a flash. But it’s not just clothes. Princess wannabes are tattooing freckles on their faces in tribute to their new role model, and […]

Fix Your Jewelry With Us – Except If It Belonged To Elvis If your jewelry breaks, you should fix it, and the repair experts at Dallas Gold & Silver Exchange are your best bet. But here’s one case when leaving it broken might have been the right call. Last weekend an auction house in England sold a […]

Looking For Trends? Try These On  Should be you getting into ear stacks? Talismans? Opals and emeralds?  JCK, a leading jewelry industry magazine, convened its annual trade show in Las Vegas last week, billed as the country’s largest exposition of what’s hot and what’s new.  For a panel discussion on those subjects, the magazine convened […]

An Intoxicating Way to Think About Gold        There are many ways to assess the worth of gold, including its dollar value, comparison to the stock market, or whether it beats the inflation rate.         Since 1950, a Liechtenstein-based asset management company called Incrementum has another method: how much beer […]