*Key Point*: “The object of the petition is to secure artisan mining rights for Greenlanders, and True North Gems is not in any way, the target of the campaign.” Statement from the 16th August Union. I am writing on behalf of the 16th August Union that had to set itself up in order to protect

Editorial by Marc Choyt, Publisher, Fairjewelry.org   Mining companies have colluded with governments to undermine the rights of indigenous small miners for hundreds of years. Typically, “the law” is used as their shield and excuse. Even in the developed world, mining companies and lobbyists collude with officials to write the laws that support their profit

In a land where the winter sun will only rise for an hour a day, the ruby, to the Inuit, holds “the divine flame that never goes out.”