First US based refiner and jewelers join the FAIRMINED initiative

Introduction: As this press release shows, the Alliance for Responsible Mining and Ethical Metalsmiths with their supporting consortium of Jeweler continue to make excellent progress with their pioneering work in the North American market. Especially heartening was this article which mentioned their efforts in this blog covering illegal Peruvian mining on the New Yorker magazine site.  Marc Choyt, FJA USA.

For the first time ever, we have authorized a US based company to trade FAIRMINED Gold! It is eco-friendly refiner and manufacturer Hoover and Strong that is now offering certified FAIRMINED gold, and over 20 US jewelers have already signed on as FAIRMINED licensees.

It is the pioneer US based organization Ethical Metalsmiths (EM) that has led this group of US jewelers to join the FAIRMINED initiative through their Ethical Sourcing Consortium.

EM’s Ethical Sourcing Consortium sources from the Peruvian mining community AURELSA that is located in the village of Relave in the department of Ayacucho, Peru.  The 86 member mining cooperative is led by managing director Rosa Reyes and produces approximately 3 kilos of gold and 4 kilos of silver per month.

Now anyone can have their very own FAIRMINED jewelry by contacting any of these pioneering US jewelers:

Kara | Daniel Jewelry, Bario-Neal, Sharón Chandally Pedrini, East Forth Street, Erin S. Daily,Jennifer Dewey Jewelry Designs,Devta Doolan, VK Designs, Susan Drews Watkins, Judy Geib Plus Alpha, J.K Haiman Designs, Rx Rox, Edward Lay, Jan Mandel, Chris & Danielle Merzatta, Rosanne Pugliese, Amy Schilling, Taber Studios, Martin Taber Designs, Irene Weinz, Brilliant Earth, Allison Ullmer, McTeigue & McClelland and Toby Pomeroy.

 

 

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