This article by Margot Roosevelt of the LA Times talks about how some major large scale jewelry companies oppose the opening of a mine in an environmentally sensitive area in Alaska. ~ Marc Retailers To Hold Mine To Higher Gold Standards Tiffany, Fortunoff and others oppose an Alaskan operation over environmental worries. By Margot Roosevelt,

. I appreciate the efforts of this blogger to expose the issues, but the post is written as if fair trade diamonds already exist. They do not. Some diamonds fields are a hundred square miles with small scale artisanal miners picking away and smuggling their goods where they can be sold. No one can really

INTRODUCTION: Michael Kowalski, CEO of Tiffany, gives us a glimpse into Tiffany’s perspective on the efforts of artisanal mining and the Association of Responsible Mining (ARM) during his interview with Robert Bates, Senior Diamond Editor of the JCK Magazine.