MICODEPRO is a co-operative which strive to formalise small-scale minining by improving regulation and making mines safe. MICODEPRO hopes to be Fairtrade certified by early 2017 and The Rock Hound would like to be one of, if not the first jeweller in the UK, to use the Fairtrade Gold mined by MICODEPRO.
Illegal artisanal miners work in small groups or by themselves with minimal or no machinery. The work is dangerous and people risk their lives each day; narrowly avoiding collapsing walls in the mines, falling debris, suffocating from carbon monoxide and even mercury poisoning.
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