Lemel is a jewellery trade term for the small shavings of precious metals such as Gold, Silver, Platinium and Palladium, that are left over from filing and other techniques that handmade jewellery pieces require. It is the jewelry workshop equivalent of sawdust.

These filings are commonly caught in a tray or skin as it is refered to under the benches and swept up and placed in a lemel jar. The lemels are then sent to the refinery to be melted down and refined into separate metal elements, which can then be sent back and used in the jewellery manufacturing process.

Types of lemels include high-grade bench scrap, filings and small pieces of scrap.

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