An editorial perspective by Marc Choyt, Editor, fairjewelry.org. Interests in support of True North Gems and Greenlandic Bureau of Mining and Petroleum (BMP) are attempting to control public discourse by distorting the truth on the Greenland ruby on Wikipedia. Their claims belittle the efforts of the Greenlandic Inuit to uphold the rights of small scale

Introducción: A declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People was passed on September 13th, 2007. The US, Canadá, Australia and New Zealand voted against the act. This act has broad ramifications throughout the gem world. Gems are often found on indigenous lands. Commonly governments work with large scale mining to disenfranchise and destroy indigenous communities

~ By Marc Choyt, Editor, fairjewelry.org For the past two years, I have been asking people I know in the diamond trade when an African diamond directly traceable to a particular country and beneficiation programs will be available. Recientemente, programs have been developed in Sierra Leon, Namibia, and now we have the Botswana diamond.