We All Own A Star
admin | August 25, 2010
We all have some form of jewellery; those necklaces, bracelets and earrings you have locked away in that little wooden box, but where does the gold and silver we make them out of come from? Not mining I don’t meant that, I mean how did it get in the ground in the first place?
Well, let me fill you in, it’s all those stars in the sky. Here’s why, when a star is burning it burns hydrogen, the most abundant element in the entire universe, after burning this hydrogen it becomes helium and so on until all that’s used up and until all that is left is iron. Now some stars are huge, and I mean very, very huge. After this they then become supernova and explode scattering metal dust (which contains the heavy gold and silver) across space until it is trapped by gravity such as our solar system, it isn’t until then, it becomes part of that solar system.
Gold is found in ores made up of rock with very small or microscopic particles of gold. This gold ore is often found together with quartz or sulphide minerals such as Fool’s Gold, which is a pyrite. Gold tends to be found with silver in a gold-silver alloy we then take the gold out of these ores and make our conventional sterling silver jewellery and gold jewellery. Gold and silver have been sought after since the Bronze Age in 2 millennia BC, clearly there’s something about these metals that speaks to us and calls for us.
We all know that next within the creation of such amazing jewellery that we can call our own, such as lovelinks bracelets. This collection of jewellery incorporates both gold and silver with combinations of cubic zirconia and murano glass charms. They’ve captured that primal instinct we developed from the Bronze Age in a modern interpretation of charms that we can collect. So next time you receive a piece of jewellery or decide to treat yourself don’t forget that you now own a bit of star that could have travelled millions and millions of miles from the other side of the universe, just for you!
