Editorial Perspective by Marc Choyt The Greenland Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum (BMP) is complicit, through collusion, conspiracy and corruption, of malfeasance towards the good citizens of Greenland. It is unfortunate that True North Gems has been caught up in this fiasco. While they have made mistakes, they are correct when they say that they

If you go to the BMP’s website, you will see that all their rules and policies are published in English—except the rules that govern small scale mining. Several people, y compris moi-même, requested that BMP translate this document into English. Initialement, the BMP refused to do so, citing costs. Cependant, due to international pressure, the BMP

Editorial Perspective by Marc Choyt, Éditeur, Fairjewelry.org. The Greenlandic Bureau of Mining and Petroleum (BMP) recently released their brand new rules for the small scale mining of rubies, without key stakeholder review. Small scale mining in Greenland is to be as regulated and nearly as costly as large scale mining. The new laws essentially codify