The
Fairtrade Foundation is encouraging retailers, jewellers, designers and
goldsmiths to sign up for a Fairtrade bridal campaign ‘I Do’ in spring.
The drive aims to sell 100,000 Fairtrade gold wedding rings to couples, which would generate £600,000 for mining communities.
The Foundation says 90 per cent of those involved in gold mining –
15million – are small-scale miners producing 200 to 300 tons a year,
often through informal or illegal operations and handling mercury and
cyanide in the extraction process. About 70 per cent of their output is
used to make jewellery.
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