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The Great (Tony McNamara, 2020).

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Among these people, Tanya Bowd, who traveled to Colombia in March to observe the activities of local (indigenous) mining communities, united to save the rainforests and to obtain a livelihood. Baud runs the "The Candescent Project" at the Art Workers Guild in Bloomsbury. Her project is an exhibition, the purpose of which is to draw attention to the so-called "Green Gold" or Oro Verde. Cyanide, often used in the mining industry, can cause an ecological catastrophe - from the production of a single engagement ring created in unsafe conditions, there may remain three metric tons (3.3 tons) of toxic waste. The Oro Verde project does not use harmful chemicals, and miners receive a fair wage. "The success of this small project has shown that the market for ethically pure gold is much larger than it was thought to be," says Baud.

Daphne Krinos (Daphne Krinos) - a jewelry artisan who produces jewelry in a single copy at a retail price of $ 815 to $ 22 825 (GBP 500 - GBP 14 000). She recycles gold scrap herself. "I'm melting his torch," says Krinos, whose work could be seen at the London Creation II exhibition in the Goldsmiths hall. "It's a pleasure to take the wrong item from gold and create something new." Of stones, Crinos prefers rough rough diamonds from Australia, where the supply chain does not raise questions. "Of course, my clients are asking questions, but I myself have always been interested in the answers to these questions in advance," she says.

But uncontrolled stones fall on the world market. The fact that diamond trade is now limited to the Kimberley Process has reduced the number of conflict stones supplied to 1%, compared to 15% in the 1990s. However, transit through the borders of rubies, emeralds and sapphires, which are so easy to hide, continues. "Most precious stones come from the poorest countries in the world, and they end up on the fingers of the world's richest people, and this is a very difficult problem," says Webster, whose clients include Johnny Depp, Keith Moss and Kate Moss and Jay-Z. Webster, who opens his London head office on Mount Street, has earned a reputation as a champion of change. "When I started [as an employee of one of the jewelry companies in 1975], no one mentioned ethics, but then the working conditions at Hatton Garden [the heart of London's jewelry trade from the 1870's] were bad enough. It was not necessary to go to Africa! "- He jokes. His "moment of eureka" came when he took part in a radio discussion "a journalist who attacked me about conflict diamonds" ten years ago. Since then, he traveled to the mines, exerted pressure on the smelters and was able to secure a guarantee that his precious stones are as pure as possible.