Welcome to Rose Gold Rings, your source on the internet for rose gold rings, rose gold gemstone rings and pink gold rings.
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What is Rose Gold?
Here’s the most basic explanation of what makes rose gold rose: It’s a mix (an ‘alloy’) of yellow gold and copper (and sometimes another metal – usually silver for jewelry manufacturing purposes). The more copper used, the rosier the gold.
Because rose gold is always a mix of metals (at a minimum, gold and copper), there is no such thing as 24k rose gold, since the ’24k’ designation denotes pure gold and we already know that rose gold is a mix and therefore, not pure.
Is 10k or 14k Rose Gold of Lesser Quality Than 10k or 14k Yellow Gold?
The short answer is ‘no.’ The karat designation of any gold – rose, yellow or white – denotes the amount of gold used to create the piece.
9k gold, for example, means that a piece contains 37.5% pure gold. How do we know? Well, we know that 24k gold is pure gold (100% gold, in other words). If a piece is 9k, we can divide 9 by 24 and arrive at the percentage of actual gold in the piece.
Using the same formula – the parts of gold divided by 24 – gives us the following percentages of gold content for the most popular purity designations found in jewelry manufacturing today:
9k = 37.5% pure gold content;
10k = 41.67% pure gold content;
14k = 58.3% pure gold content;
18k = 75% pure gold content.
The percentage of pure gold content is static and unchanged regardless of whether we’re talking about 10k rose gold, 10k yellow gold or 10k white gold. All will have the same percentage of pure gold content.
Ironically, you might sometimes find rose gold rings and other rose gold jewelry priced a little higher than its white or yellow gold counterparts. Though rose gold has experienced a recent surge in popularity, it’s still in significantly less demand than either yellow gold or white gold. Since it’s mixed in significantly smaller quantities because of smaller demand, it can sometimes be pricier.
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