We welcome the opportunity to comment on RJC‘s latest documents. We recognise the challenges and see the logic in the initial steps taken to assure chain of custody. Fair Jewellery Action is a new network being established by Marc Choyt of Reflective Images (USA) and Greg Valerio (founder of CRED Jewellery and a founding board member

Reported at Al Jazeera.net At least 163 people have died in northern Nigeria in recent weeks as a result of lead poisoning from illegal gold mining in several remote villages. Henry Akpan, the Nigerian health ministry’s chief epidemiologist, said on Friday that 111 children were among those killed in Zamfara state, many of them under

By Patrick Schein Introduction: This was written in response to a comment written in response to my previous post on 60 Procès-verbal. In the Comments for this, “Stephen” wrote, “First of all: all the gold for the jewellery comes from refined gold = 100% vert…” (Patrick facture) Patrick facture, who is an expert on these