Jewelry Tips: If the pieces are set with a gemstone or other adornments, always keep their needs and fragilities in mind when cleaning the setting.

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Jewelry Tips: If your jeweler sells African diamonds, ask for the supplier’s name and if he or she can provide a Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) “Certificate of Origin.” Shipments of diamonds from Kimberley Process participating countries are shipped with these certificates, which state that the diamonds came from government-controlled areas where conflict diamond mining is at a minimum. Participating countries, including the U.S., are allowed to trade only with other Kimberley Process participants.

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Jewelry Tips: In spite of their strength, fine jewelry fashion and style are still options; tungsten and titanium jewelry can be crafted into almost any design, just like precious metals, from simple bands to complex settings with diamonds, rubies, emeralds, sapphires, topaz or other gemstones. They can be surfaced with a brushed or matte finish. Their durability does present one drawback, however. This jewelry cannot be resized. On the bright side, nothing any ordinary person will ever do can damage them.

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Jewelry Tips: Not an alloy, tungsten carbides are compounds of tungsten and carbon–monotungsten carbide (WC) or ditungsten-carbide (W2C), for the few who care–pure tungsten jewelry is available, but pure tungsten isn’t as hard as the carbides.

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