I reply to the Open Letter which Ethical Metalsmiths and Fair Jewelry Action sent to the Responsible Jewellery Council and the Alliance for Responsible Mining, which I received by email on Friday, 6th July, 2012.   In your letter, you cite concerns that the relationship between the Alliance for Responsible Mining and the Responsible Jewellery

RJC Recognition of Part A of the Fairtrade and Fairmined Standard for Artisanal and Small Scale Miners We have recently received concerns about the potential impacts of the recognition of the producer section of the Fairtrade and Fairmined standard (Part A) by the RJC’s Chain-of-Custody Standard and about the ARM and Fairtrade International partnership’s

by Patrick Schein 08/05/2012 a 10:57 A recent article on the Swiss village of Medel, which voted against approving a exploration license to tap a gold deposit in the Grisons mountains estimated at 25 tonnes with a market value of some 1,3 billion dollars at current prices, led me to reflect on the real end