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Jewellery Manufacturing

Gold jewellery has been produced by man since the early Bronze Age. Traditionally, it was made by skilled goldsmiths using craft skills and simple hand tools. Today, much jewellery is still made in traditional workshops around the world using manual metalworking skills using modern hand tools and limited use of machines. However, increasingly, it is being made by mass production methods using modern machines and equipment in jewellery factories, where the traditional manual craft skills are no longer necessary.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo of traditional workshop

In mass production, the major technologies in use are:
* Lost Wax (Investment) Casting
* Stamping
* Holloware
* Electroforming
* Chain Making
* Soldering
* Finishing
* The New Technologies
* Recycling Scrap and Refining (143 kb)

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ACS Fall meeting

Inbetween meetings yesterday I managed to attend a few lectures here in (an extremely rainy!) Boston. Vince Rotello of UMass and Richard Lambert of Cambridge delivered the 2010 Langmuir lectures, both of which were excellent. Other interesting talks included Jin Zhang of UC Santa Cruz discussing his group’s work in the field of solar cell [...]

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