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PURITY OF GOLD Shropshire Gold Buyers will buy your unwanted or broken Gold jewellery items according to their purity and gram weight. The purity of gold is measured by 'carats'. One carat is one twenty-fourth purity by weight. Therefore, 24 carat gold is defined as pure gold or fine gold ( 99.99% pure) ,18 carat gold is 75% purity, 9 carat gold is 37.5% purity and so on. The Carat value of Gold is an INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNISED STANDARD OF PURITY. The most common carats ,or purities, used for gold jewellery are : 24 carat...purity 999.9/1000 22 carat...purity 916/1000 20 carat....purity833/1000 18 carat....purity 750/1000 15 carat ...purity 625/1000 14 carat....purity 585/1000 10 carat....purity 417/1000 9 carat ....purity 375/1000 |