Our Exclusive Interview with Patrick Schein, Part II Patrick Schein is an Executive Board Member of the Association of Responsible Mining (ARM) as well as the President of S & P Trading, a precious metal trader and refiner based in Paris. Anyone interested in the fair trade gold issue will want to read this entire

Exclusive Interview with Patrick Schein, Part I Last week, on March 17th , ARM and FLO announced their fair trade gold. This is the first time that a hard rock mining product can be certified by a third party as “fair trade.” (Patrick Schein) Here, in an interview with Patrick Schein, we learn more about

At last it is officially official. Well done to everyone at Fairtrade Labeling and ARM. Today the ship is launched. We now have the best story in the gold world. Fairtrade and Fairmined gold standards launched. Alleviating poverty faced by artisanal and small-scale gold miners Minimising environmental impacts of gold mining Traceable gold Fairtrade Labelling