INTRODUCTION: “Luamba works in the brutal business known as artisanal mining, which accounts for as much as 90 percent of the country’s mineral exports,” writes Stephanie McCrummen of the Washington Post.

Introduction: The ongoing marketing of “green” jewelry became a subject of conversation on the Madison Dialogue list serve. This list is composed of many of the leaders in the multi-sector initiative to clean up the jewelry supply chain.

Introduction: Guest blogger and bench jeweler, Steve Gerencser returns to fairjewelry.org to post this insightful comment: The phrase “ethical jewelry” is divisive because, “somehow the people not following the newest trend are somehow unethical.” ~Marc The use of the word, “ethical”, put forth in the Madison Dialogue to describe what is being attempted in the