Handcrafted gold jewelry. Neater production

The purpose of this article is to present the aspects and / or impacts of the gold jewelry production through an inquiry and bibliographic review of the production processes in Colombian artisan jewelry workshops, understanding artisanal jewelry as that art made by artisan and goldsmiths where their main raw material is gold. The study covers the production from the extraction of metals to the manufacture of products, documenting the environmental consequences found within the same chain in Colombia in the last two decades.