@@patrick7247Have you seen how gold is extracted? The truth is, the bottom and most vital levels of our supply chain for precious resources are driven by minimally paid or slave laborers in incredibly dangerous environments.
@@DAAI741Yes, the point they are making is unlike gold we have the ability to make artificial diamonds that are completely indistinguishable and actually better quality then what is usually mined, but due to the artificial rarity imposed by the diamond market they have made the slave labour of diamond jewelry intrinsic to the market, and have jacked the price hundreds of times what it’s actual value would be because of this. It’s actually rather interesting if not horrifying how much the jewelry market has pushed to suppress artificial diamonds and make consumers believe they are somehow lesser because they didn’t require children dying in an African diamond mine
@JgHaverty mainly lathework here! Still studying, but a lot of experience and a machinist nontheless! I'd like to show this guy some chrome-molybdenum turned to a micron to fit on a bearing. My mind was blown when I pulled it off for the first time and I was already in it quite a bit back then lol.
@@enricomontanari1390 Yeah, I do get it. However, when using technical language, colloquialisms just confuse things. If he said it's "super precise" instead, I wouldn't have an issue.
Milimeter precision sounds like not really that difficult after seeing some machinist work on a piece with a hundred of a milimeter precision, but yeah, good work
I don't think he meant to say 1mm but a tenth or a hundredth (0.10 and 0.01mm respectively.) I mean, why would he even be micing a 1mm tollerance, at that point digital calipers are more than good enough. 1mm is a little over a 1/32nd, or just under 40 thou (0.039")
I helped set up about a dozen of these machines years ago. The machines that cut the surface had little shop vacuums to collect the gold shavings . They would send the entire vac to be recycled for every ting bit of gold that was in the filters and hoses.
“Millimeter margin of error” in my 30+ years experience being gold chain manufacturing machine technician I have never heard of anyone having a millimeter margin of error. If you did that at my job, you’d be laughed out of the room. 😂
Platinum has a *very very very* high melting point. A proper arc forge could smelt a tiny bit of platinum. So maybe not him, but if he had a 25 million dollar plasma furnace then maybe
@@pineappleguy178 Thanks. Never knew it was that expensive. There is a company in Korea that makes platinum necklaces, but I would rather buy in the US.
It's so precise because of how soft the metal is. I make micro targets for research out is rare high Z metals like gold, silver, tantalum, Tungsten, osmium, etc. Gold is a bitch because it's so soft.
Then there're all the poor jewelry students I went to art school with who, (obviously weren't working in gold, for one,) had to hand craft every single link when they wanted to make chains. Of course, without the machines, this is actually not as difficult as it might sound, since you can just wind the wire around a cylindrical rod of whatever diameter you want your links to be, and then saw through the whole stack at once and get like, 50 loose links at a time.
They could do it, but for many many years Italy has been the center of gold chain production. They know the most about it so it only makes sense to hire the experts for this type of work. Also most machines for gold chain production are fabricated in Italy.
