The press release announces a remarkable step forward for the US jewelry market. Through the extraordinary efforts of Ethical Metalsmiths, Hoover and Strong and ARM, jewelers in the US now can easily support ethical small scale miners. The US jewelry market is the largest in the world. Now we have an solid supply chain that

Fairtrade International has launched a public consultation on its Standard for Gold and Associated Precious Metals for Artisanal and Small-scale Mining to explore how Fairtrade can best tackle new regulation and legislation in the gold industry. The aim is for Fairtrade to offer a small, but scalable solution to companies looking to source gold from