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Modern Jeweler: Product and Trends for Jewelry Retailers - Making a Difference
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But doing good isn't just good for the bottom line. Business owners are discovering rewards like deeper bonds with customers, employees, goodwill in the community, and the sense of satisfaction that comes from doing the right thing.
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Article from 2005 on the extensive damage caused by modern mining operation - NY Times
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MiningWatch > There Are No Clean Diamonds: What You Need to Know About Canadian Diamonds
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“In a marketplace increasingly worried about blood diamonds -- called
that because, amid reports of slave labour and torture, they have helped
finance horrific civil wars in countries such as Angola, Democratic Republic
of the Congo and Sierra Leone -- Canadian gems have the additional cachet
of being conflict-free. Producers here are initiating the concept of branded
gems -- stones with a miniscule symbol like the maple leaf implanted on an
edge -- and are charging a premium for them.” (Katherine Macklem,
Maclean’s,
September 8, 2003) -
- The mines are often built in environmentally fragile ecosystems, have significant
ecological footprints, and will significantly impact upon the caribou, wolverine, bears, ptarmigan and fish which provide food for Aboriginal peoples. - Exploration
and mining distort and disrupt the cultural and social lives of Aboriginal
peoples and the regional economy and very few of the financial benefits from
the mines return to the people who suffer most of the impacts. - The federal,
provincial and territorial regulatory frameworks in Canada are inadequate
to protect the environment from long term and cumulative environmental effects
What are some of the problems with Canadian diamonds?
- The mines are often built in environmentally fragile ecosystems, have significant
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Wal-Mart trying to clean up the gold-mining business - Sep. 3, 2008
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Canada's Barrick Gold (ABX), the world's largest gold-mining company, has refused to directly join with the retailers or environmentalists to set standards, preferring to be represented by its industry group. The state-owned China National Gold Group, now a major producer, has likewise declined to participate.
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Kowalski has been digging into Tiffany's supply chain since the late 1990s, after human rights groups accused the jewelry industry of trafficking in so-called conflict diamonds, also known as "blood diamonds" because they were traded by rebel groups in Africa to finance brutal civil wars.
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