By Greg Valerio, The Fair Trade Jeweller Being a fair trade and ethical jeweller is not easy. It takes time, money and conviction to move towards a place where our knowledge of the impact our business has on our supply chain is as detailed as our knowledge of our finished products, customers and profit lines.

Introduction: This is an ongoing recording 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 for full review of past discussions. The entire principles and standards document can be found here. In this portion, I introduce the Skill Transfer

The Golden Opportunity is a paper aimed at recasting the debate around the positive opportunity that responsible small-scale mining can deliver for developing economies if it was given a fair chance from public policy makers.