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Palladium: THE GREAT WHITE HOPE.(Jeweler's Round Table)
Modern Jeweler
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June 1, 2007
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Palladium: THE GREAT WHITE HOPE
BY DAVID FEDERMAN, CONTRIBUTING EDITOR
Ever since palladium stepped into the jewelry arena in 2005, it has been winning converts. Now the odds are even more in its favor.
Joe Cassarino has been waiting for palladium to invade the American mainstream for 50 years. That's when the Rochester, New York, jeweler made his first pair of wedding bands in this platinum family metal--for him and his wife.
Half a century ago, palladium was known only as a distant relative of platinum. Other cousins of the world's most ...
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The other white metal: for a growing number of jewelry manufacturers and retailers, pure palladium is a new and viable alternative to white gold.(Stillwater collection)
Magazine article from: Modern Jeweler
; ...department was white gold-free. As...high-purity palladium jewelry accounts...offer pure palladium as both a replacement for white gold and an affordable...case for pure palladium than impure...Banishing white gold is heretical...
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Palladium: a whiter shade of pale; Move over, white gold. If the new International Palladium Council has its way, retailers and consumers will prefer palladium.
Magazine article from: Modern Jeweler
; ...nearly twice that of palladium ($577 versus $296...metal used to coat most white gold alloys, is vastly more...wonder the IPC is finding palladium proselytizing far easier...none of the minuses of white gold. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED...has been working in palladium for three ...
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New cathedral-style shanks are available in 14k yellow or palladium white gold in 25 different styles.(Jewelry)(Advertisement)
Magazine article from: Jewelers Circular Keystone
; New cathedral-style shanks are available in 14k yellow or palladium while gold in 25 different styles. Hoover & Strong, Richmond, Va.; (800) 789-9997, www.hooverandstrong.com.
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Tipping point: with Scott Kay now its most vocal advocate, palladium may strike gold--or, should we say, go platinum.
Magazine article from: Modern Jeweler
; ...competitor to platinum, not just white gold. Of course, palladium's main competition remains white gold. Indeed, the man who invented...platinum so expensive and palladium not available in casting alloys, white gold led both in white metal market...
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Fine Jewelry: Scott Kay on Palladium Metal:.
PR Newswire
; ...100% natural. FACT: Palladium is economical. It sells for less than white gold and even if the price...parts to this metal -- Palladium and Ruthenium. Neither...irritation as Nickel does in white gold. FACT: Palladium is whiter than Platinum...
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Alternative metals roll along: the other white metals--palladium, steel, titanium, and tungsten--are set to explode in the jewelry industry.(MARKET REPORT)
Magazine article from: Jewelers Circular Keystone
; ...silver, and white gold. Palladium, especially...than platinum or white gold, providing better...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] PALLADIUM'S CHAMPION...yellow" (like white gold) with extensive...we settled on palladium, which has the...
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Palladium--a white metal of choice; with major designers adopting palladium at an increasing rate, it has become a favored white metal for the global jewelry industry.(Palladium Jewelry)(Industry overview)
Magazine article from: JQ
; ...big plus is that palladium satisfies customers...upset when their white gold rings turn pale...the fact that palladium, as a purely...color better than white gold. As the demand...continues to grow for palladium, Martin Flyer...
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Palladium's Progress.
Magazine article from: Jewelers Circular Keystone
; ...as jewelry is concerned, palladium is both alloyed with gold to create white gold (only palladium and nickel are able to do...metals like platinum and white gold. One message projected by PAI is that palladium is just as good as and similar...
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Feature: Rising platinum prices boost palladium jewelry.
Newspaper article from: China Business News
; ...really care if it's platinum or white gold / As long as its got the bling...have been reluctant to introduce palladium or white gold for fear of confusing customers...they have been reluctant to add palladium to their product mix, citing...
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Palladium: the "new" Great White.(Focus on Palladium)(Company overview)
Magazine article from: JQ
; ...understands. We sell platinum, and palladium is now an addition to our...color and, in a 950 alloy, palladium is purer than 18K white gold, and never needs to be re...com), also advocates that palladium is about choice. Any time...
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