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Top ‘10’ gift ideas

This year we wanted to show our clients our Top ‘10’ gift ideas in different price classes. As you probably noticed there are more than just 10, hence the 10 in inverted commas. We just had to share all our favourite choices.

The Christmas Season isn't found under a tree, but in You & Me……. The love shared with everybody…….. Anywhere. Anytime.

May this inspire you in some small way to share that love during this Christmas Season. If you would like to see some more fabulous gift ideas visit http://top10.deonneleroux.com/

Olympics 2012

 

The 2012 Olympic games have just been completed in London, awarding top athletes with medals for their achievements.

World-class athletes around the globe dream of having gold medals placed around their necks with their country’s national anthem blaring on the sound system in celebration of their hard work and dedication.

But are these golden prizes actually made exclusively of gold? And what are the silver and bronze medals given to all the second- and third-place finishers really made of?

According to Kennecott Utah Copper, a division of Rio Tinto Mines, which provided the metal used to create the 4,700 medals awarded at the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Advisor of communications Kyle Bennett explained: The gold medal is made of 92.5 percent silver, 1.34 percent gold, with the remaining percentage copper; silver medals are composed of 92.5 percent silver, and 7.5 percent copper; bronze medals consist of 97 percent copper, 2.5 percent zinc, and 0.5 percent tin.

The medals started out as iron ore in the Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah. The ore was extracted through a 24-hour, 7-days-a-week process of drilling, blasting, loading, hauling, crushing, and conveying. Valuable materials were then filtered during the concentration process. The smelting process—which entailed heating and melting the copper concentrates—removed the copper from the other elements in the ore. During the refining process, precious metals—including gold and silver—were separated from the copper.

Rio Tinto then shipped the gold, silver, and copper to the Cookson Precious Metals Group, where the metal was pressed into flat discs. The Royal Mint in London inscribed the medals with the official design of the Summer 2012 Olympics, which was designed by David Watkins, jeweller and professor of goldsmithing at London’s Royal College of Art.

The Olympic Committee’s pledge to be the most eco-friendly games to date played a key role in Rio Tinto’s involvement in producing the medals. “Our commitment to sustainable development is an integral part of how we do business and one of the reasons we are able to sponsor the greenest games ever,” Bennett says. “We can trace every gram of metal we produce back to the mine to ensure the metal meets our stringent standards.”

By Stephanie Schaefer, Editorial Assistant JCK

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Walter le Roux of Deonne le Roux Jewellers, Lesego Sitwe and Mis SA Belinda Bam along with Varsity College and the Reach for a dream Foundation got together for the Queen for a Day event at Castello Di Monte in Waterkloof.

Fifteen girls, aged six to 19, from the Meerhof school for pupils with special educational needs, were the beautifully turned out queens at the annual Queen for a Day event where they received new outfits as well as mini pampering sessions.

The girls also got their fair share of entertainment fit for a queen as artist Riana Nel performed two songs for them

This ring is about to rock the red carpet

Newly engaged super-couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are set to attend the upcoming 65th annual Cannes Film Festival. The two-week festival kicks off May 16 on the French Riviera, where Pitt will be promoting his upcoming crime thriller Killing Them Softly.

The famed festival is a favorite destination for the pair: They have attended together every year for the past five years with the exception of 2010. While they always spark a flash bulb frenzy on the red carpet – this year more than ever, thanks to that engagement sparkler – in the past they have also made time for family activities and date nights.

Information supplied by People Magazine. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20588406,00.html