“Jewellers should be putting pressure on their Trade Associations to make sure they are being represented in these debates.” — Sonya Maldar of the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) ~ Opinion by Marc Choyt, publisher The latest public relations crisis in the jewelry world is an upcoming segment on 60 Minutes on “conflict gold”,

Cartier’s new move for clean gold sourcing is a fine example of best practices for a large scale jewelry company. Not only is the new mine that they are partnering with chemical free, but they are also engaging small scale artisan gold miners in their sourcing efforts. There are two issues. As fairjewelry.org staff writer

by Marc Choyt, Publisher In a recent post, I wrote about an artisan owned distribution model project by the New World Mexican Women who lived in the state of Guerrero. They have started an economic empowerment project based on developing a direct relationship with the buyer, rather than going through distributors.