Jewelry makers and sellers themselves are also struggling with sharply higher prices for precious metals like gold and platinum. Gold costs about $1,840 an ounce, up 204% from about $605 per ounce ...

Married people don’t always wear wedding bands or engagement rings — at least not their original ones.. The longest stretch of time that Mike Wirs wore his tungsten wedding band was in 2019 ...

It can take around 10 minutes to cut just one drill bit from tungsten using a diamond cutting system, according to the BBC. Some jewelers also use tungsten carbide to make wedding bands and other ...

Forget about sentimentality and tradition. Skyrocketing gold prices have jewelers and cash-strapped couples clamoring for wedding bands made of less expensive metals like tungsten, cobalt and even ...