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Reflecting on artisanal diamond mining in Africa

Reflecting on artisanal diamond mining in Africa
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Renewable energy: Solution to powering Nigerian off-grid communities

Renewable energy: Solution to powering Nigerian off-grid communities
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How Petra Diamonds Ended Up in a Human Rights Mess

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Hans Merket, a researcher with the International Peace Information Service (IPIS), says he didn’t go into Tanzania expecting to learn about people getting hurt and killed. His group simply wanted to measure how mines were viewed by surrounding communities.
But when they got to Mwadui, the area around the Williamson diamond mine, he kept hearing how mine security forces had taken violent action against purported trespassers on the mine area. There were reports of people being shot, stabbed, beaten, locked up, and killed.
“We really stumbled on these abuses,” he says. “We usually don’t do advocacy. It’s not our specialization.” ....

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Pandora's Bollocks: How a Charm Company Manipulated the Media – JCK

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Just about everyone in the jewelry trade as opposed to just about everyone in the consumer media agrees that Pandora’s decision to stop carrying natural diamonds and launch a lab-grown line was no big deal.
After all, in 2018, only 0.04% of the gemstones of any kind Pandora used were natural. Last year, it sold 55,000 pieces with natural diamonds, out of 85 million jewelry items total. I can think of a dozen jewelers that could cause an earthquake if they decided to no longer sell natural diamonds. Pandora isn’t one of them.
So why did its announcement make headlines across the world? Most likely, it was because of how the company framed the decision. “[M]ined diamonds will no longer be used in Pandora’s products,” its statement said without mentioning it didn’t use many in the first place. ....

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