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I was thinking of buying my thai sweetheart a birthday gift here in Canada, but as I will be in cambo for New Years, I was looking at that option.
I would imagine that a gold chain would be quite cheaper there.
Any good places to buy them there? Central market? Aeon mall? :please:
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If you are planning to buy platinum....Cambodia market is good for it. In term of pure gold...forget it, buy it in the west.
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flying chicken wrote:If you are planning to buy platinum....Cambodia market is good for it. In term of pure gold...forget it, buy it in the west.
Why is this? I was thinking of 10 k chain, is it not good quality? Price?
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I dont know. All I know is Cambodia gold sold at the market is not pure by definition. Real gold dont lose value, but Cambodia gold does.
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platin is not platinum, it is karat gold starting with 18k and dropping down through the grades.

yes, gold jewellery is cheaper in cambo than in the west.

how do i know?
i have been in the business for 35 years and worked as a smith as well as a lapidarist.
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Isnt platin short for platinum?
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no, it means karat gold.
there is no platinum in gold shops
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I ways thought platin just meant gold plated. But I know nothing about jewelry/karats/plating.
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it means alloy vs 24kt basically
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I heard that after years of disappointing results, OZ Minerals sold its Mondolkiri resource. It seems that it didn't pan out
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