The Fairtrade Foundation launches bridal campaign to help mining communities

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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