By Aurelie Sinclair Blood diamonds – also called conflict diamonds – were once kept almost completely out of the US diamond market by the Kimberley Process. Tuttavia, con i recenti fallimenti del processo ', sempre più stanno trovando la loro strada nella fornitura tradizionale di pietre preziose. Il processo di Kimberley è volontaria e di auto-regolazione. It monitors the

Editorial Comment by Marc Choyt Join the Responsible Jewelry Council (RJC) or lose your business. That’s the choice for some companies wishing to do business with two of the large diamond mining companies who are prominent members of the RJC.   For many jewelers who look toward the RJC as the organization to create ethical

Introduzione: The Dodd-Frank Bill, which aims to prohibit the use of rare metals and minerals that fund conflicts in the Great Lakes region of Africa, is drastically impacting the small scale miner. Infatti, the legislation has put perhaps hundreds of thousands of small scale miners out of work. This number does not only include