First US based refiner and jewelers join the FAIRMINED initiative

Introducción: 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 EE.UU..

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, Perú. La 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 Joyería, Bario-Neal, Sharón Chandally Pedrini, Street East Forth, Erin S. Diario,Jennifer Dewey Jewelry Designs,Devta Doolan, VK Diseños, Susan Watkins Drews, Judy Geib Plus Alfa, J.K Haiman Diseños, Rx Rox, Edward Lay, Ene Mandel, Chris & Danielle Merzatta, Rosanne Pugliese, Amy Schilling, Taber Studios, Martin Taber Diseños, Irene Weinz, Brillante la tierra, Allison Ullmer, McTeigue & McClelland and Toby Pomeroy.

 

 

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