The Fairmined standard is aimed at highlighting everyday risks to miners while ensuring that producers in Peru, Bolivia, Colombia and Ecuador are offered a price of 95 per cent of the London Bullion Market Association’s fix for gold.
Small-scale Latin American mining communities are often at the mercy of middle men, who offer anything from 35 per cent to 85 per cent of the LBMA fix.
Since 2013, Chopard has supported the development of the Coodmilla co-operative, in the Nariño region of Colombia. The company has set targets to buy a significant percentage of gold from Fairmined stocks and to support other co-operatives in South America
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