The Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM) is happy to announce that FAIRMINED metals are now available to ethical jewelers in North America through FairSources, the recent joint venture between the Fair Trade Jewellery Company (Canada) and S&P Trading (Gold by Gold group — France). The availability of FAIRMINED Gold on the North American market represents

Introductory Comments:  In January, 2009, I visited the home ground of a model economic project in a traditional jewelry-making village about a half-hour by taxi from the colonial silver town of Taxco, Mexico.  We were most graciously hosted by lovely old lady who graciously provided a sleeping place and served us up an astonishingly delicious

Editor’s Note:  This blog has been adapted from a speech that RCS Global Senior Consultant, Dan Paget, gave at the Intergovernmental Forum On Mining, Minerals and Metals and Sustainable Development Forum meeting at the PDAC International Convention in Toronto, March 5th 2013.  Thanks to Nicholas Garrett of RCS for permission to repost this article which I first