You have items lying around your house that contains valuable precious metals. Other people in your community have them too.

So, here’s a simple idea for a way to help your favorite cause – whether it’s a school, a religious institution, a hospital, or your favorite charity . . .

If you are replacing the central air conditioning in an older home, apartment building or factory, here’s something important to keep in mind . . .

Don’t toss parts of your old system that contain gold, silver, or valuable non-precious metals like copper and aluminum

Did you just see a ring or an earring disappear down the drain in a sink, a bathtub or a shower? You know where the lost item is hiding, and now you need to retrieve it.

And sometimes, you are not the person who lost the items. Maybe they were dropped there by a previous occupant of an apartment or a house. The bottom line is that the older a sink or a shower is, the greater the likelihood that some piece of gold, silver or platinum jewelry will be down there awaiting your discovery.

So, how are you going to retrieve those items?

Your son or daughter will graduate high school or college in a few weeks. And you’re thinking, “Wouldn’t it be nice if I gave that grad an old item of family jewelry that’s been sitting around for years?”

It could be grandpa’s old gold pocket watch, or a wedding ring that once was worn by your mother. Well, aren’t you being generous? Yes, you are. But before you make that generous gift, here’s a piece of advice:

Did you know that Queen Victoria, who ruled Great Britain from 1837 until her death in 1901, was buried with a lot of her favorite pieces of jewelry?

She personally selected the items of jewelry that she wanted to be buried with her. They included pieces of jewelry that had been given to her by her late husband Prince Albert, as well as a number of bracelets and other items that held personal value for her.

How much were these items worth? We don’t know. But we do know one thing about them . . .

Frankly, we do not completely understand why the Metropolitan Museum in New York, one of the greatest art museums in the world, has chosen to host its annual Met Gala. The coverage of the event is extensive, with news crews outside the museum shooting video of some of today’s biggest celebrities as they arrive and walk up the staircase into the event. But why is this happening at an art museum? It doesn’t have anything to do with art really, so it must have something to do with money. And sure enough, the event raises money for the Museum’s Costume Institute.

As spring arrives across North America, more and more of us can head into the great outdoors to prospect for gold. Here is some new equipment that can help precious gold prospectors find more gold in the summer months ahead.

Will this emerging trend create new opportunities to recycle platinum?

Just when we were starting to think that enthusiasm for hydrogen fuel cell-powered vehicles was starting to fall, interest is picking up again. Learn more in this recent video about fuel cell cars that was shown on PBS News earlier this month.

Are you just about to do some spring cleaning in your home, garage, or place of business?

That’s great. But spring is also a great time to make some new plans for profiting from precious metals. Here’s a checklist of ways to make sure that this spring and summer will be the most profitable time you have ever seen for collecting – and profiting from – gold scrap, silver scrap, platinum scrap and more.

Do you love making money by investing in precious metals? Do you have a son or a daughter who is interested in precious metals too, and who could potentially want to make a career working in the field?

Without thinking, many people throw away old items that contain precious metals that can be reclaimed for dollars – often, for a lot of dollars.

Sometimes they toss precious metals when they do home upgrades or repairs. Sometimes they do when they have their cars repaired.

Where Can You Find Scrapped Airliners and Military Planes in the U.S.?, a post we published on this blog on March 7, 2022, included a comprehensive, state-by-state guide to airplane scrapyards in America.

Today, we would like to ask, what are the best places to find platinum scrap in the planes you will find in those scrapyards?

We want you to make money when you invest in precious metals.

Why? One reason is that if we can help you make money by using our testing and recycling processes, we will make more money too. But that isn’t the most important reason. The most important reason we want you to do well and make money is that we want to support you. Also, the more successful you become as a precious metal investor, the better it is for our entire business sector. That’s another way of saying that when more people make more money, everyone in the universe of precious metal investing benefits.

Gold is a metal that is known for its beauty. So why is it used in so many medical devices that are used where no one can see it – inside the human body?

Gold, silver, platinum, palladium and other metals are all selling for certain trading prices that can change day by day. If you have a Troy Ounce of gold, for example, you can check on our home page and see that you should be able to sell it for $1809.20.

What precious metal investments should you be thinking about if you live in an apartment or small residence? Several considerations come into play:

Sometimes a customer will call us up and ask how we can recycle items that are relatively simple and straightforward to process. If you have a platinum engagement or wedding ring, for example, you can send it to us so we can test it and retrieve the precious metal it contains.

Gold was trading at about $1,300 in 2018. Today, the price is more than $1,900. Those are the facts. Yet what do they mean if you are someone who likes to invest in gold? Are prices about to level off, rise even higher . . . or fall?

You have probably heard it said that now that there is war in the Ukraine, the flow of precious metals mined there will be shut off. Some people have even been saying that when that happens, the prices of platinum and other metals that are mined in Ukraine will rise exponentially.

It seems that everything about cars is changing today, usually moving to apps. You want a ride somewhere, you fire up an app. You want to buy a car? Ditto. And if you want to scrap a car or donate it to a charity, you can manage all the details online and before you know it, a tow truck shows up and hauls your car away.