De Beers has been declared the Overall Winner in the ACCA South Africa Sustainability Reporting Awards for its Report to Society 2009. This is the third consecutive year that the Report to Society has been recognised for such an Award, but this time De Beers was placed in a category of its own as ACCA [...]
The jewellery industry now has the opportunity to materially improve the lives of thousands of disadvantaged artisanal and small-scale miners in South America. Artisanal and small-scale miners, who produce just 15% of global gold supplies, yet account for 80% of labour in gold extraction, experience high levels of poverty, the Fairtrade Foundation will explain. Speaking [...]
Canada must follow the example set by the U.S. Congress and adopt ground-breaking legislation that forces companies to reveal their financial dealings here and abroad, says a Canadian organization that works to improve transparency and accountability in resource extraction industries. “Canada is a global leader in the energy and mining sectors, but not when it [...]
In the wake of ICMM’s participation at the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) in New York, this edition of its biannual newsletter examines the SD challenge and the different ways in which member companies are trying to address it. “Whether we are talking about the beneficial uses of metal or the socioeconomic benefits [...]
A wave of new jewelry retailers, including the nation’s 2nd largest jewelry retailer, Zale Corporation (NYSE: ZLC), pledged support for permanently protecting Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed from large-scale metal mining, including the controversial proposed Pebble Mine. “The 1,850 Bristol Bay commercial fishing permit holders that we represent want to thank the jewelers who have vowed [...]
A wave of new jewelry retailers,, including the nation’s 2nd largest jewelry retailer, Zale Corporation (NYSE: ZLC), pledged support for permanently protecting Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed from large-scale metal mining, including the controversial proposed Pebble Mine. “The 1,850 Bristol Bay commercial fishing permit holders that we represent want to thank the jewelers who have vowed [...]
ICMM presents Leadership Matters – Managing Fatal Risk Guidance, a new tool for the mining industry. It focuses on the pro-active actions and behaviors that may be exercised by managers of operations and site leadership teams to help eliminate the risk of fatalities. Leadership Matters expresses the intent that leaders set the tone and direction [...]
Ingle & Rhode, the UK’s principal retailer of ethical jewellery and custom engagement rings produced using conflict-free diamonds and fair trade gold, comment on the revelations that Zimbabwe’s government have been using military force to partition diamonds away from UK-based company, African Consolidated Resources. African Consolidated Resources (ACR) and the Zimbabwean government have been in [...]
The reported human rights abuses in the Marange diamond fields in Zimbabwe are of grave concern to all who advocate responsible practices in the jewellery supply chain. The Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) includes specific provisions regarding human rights and conflict diamonds as part of its Certification System, formally launched in December 2009. Marange Diamonds In [...]
The Honourable Minister Alhaji Collins Dauda, Minister for Land and Natural Resources – Ghana, and Mark Cutifani, CEO of AngloGold Ashanti, jointly launched a new initiative at the INDABA Mining Convention in Cape Town, South Africa. ‘Mining: Partnerships for Development’ is a global initiative to enhance mining’s contribution to development and poverty reduction through multi-stakeholder [...]
A new publication “Working together – how large-scale miners can engage with artisanal and small-scale miners”, is available from the International Council on Mining & Metals. This document is the product of a fruitful partnership with Communities and Small-Scale Mining (CASM), the International Finance Corporation’s Oil, Gas, and Mining Sustainable Community Development Fund (IFC CommDev) [...]
Jewelers of America (JA), the national trade association for businesses serving the fine jewelry retail marketplace, welcomes the launch of the Responsible Jewellery Council’s (RJC) Certification Scheme, an important milestone for the Council. A co-founder of RJC in 2005, JA has taken a leadership position in advocating high ethical, social and environmental standards in the [...]