Jewellery industry urged to use Fairtrade and Fairmined gold to improve lives of disadvantaged miners and their communities.

In my ongoing research into the story behind the Kimberley Process allowing the sale of rough diamonds from the Marange region of Zimbabwe, an important background to the story is the role of ACR, their diamond concession and how they were thrown off the concession by the Zimbabwe Government. Below is the interview originally published

Introduction: This is an ongoing documentation of a series of dialogs between members of our Manufacturing Group, charged with the task of developing exceptional standards for jewelry manufacturing. Follow this link, https://fairjewelry.org/madison-dialogue-manufacturing-committee for full review of past discussions. In Part II, we continue our discussion regarding how to implement standards for transparency. Part I (previously