<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Fair Trade And Ethically Sourced Jewelry &#187; Rubies</title>
	<atom:link href="http://www.fairjewelry.org/archives/category/rubies/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://www.fairjewelry.org</link>
	<description>Education,   Research,   Activism</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:57:38 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=abc</generator>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
			<item>
		<title>Greenland Moves To Formalize Arctic-Apartheid System In Gemstone Exploration</title>
		<link>http://www.fairjewelry.org/archives/3457</link>
		<comments>http://www.fairjewelry.org/archives/3457#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niels Madsen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Announcements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greenland Rubies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rad Transparency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Responsible Mining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rubies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transparency]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fairjewelry.org/?p=3457</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Press Release 
Inuit Small Scale Miners Unite With International Community of Ethical Jewelers and call for a boycott of the “Artic-Apartheid” Ruby
Nuuk, Greenland (PRWEB) March 5, 2010 &#8212; Niels Madsen, a small scale mining activist and one of the founders of the 16th August Union, a Greenlandic association of small scale miners, has issued a [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.fairjewelry.org/archives/3457/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Greenland Ruby Update: Interview With Niels Madsen, Founder of the 16th August Union</title>
		<link>http://www.fairjewelry.org/archives/3160</link>
		<comments>http://www.fairjewelry.org/archives/3160#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Choyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Trade Gems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greenland Rubies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rad Transparency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Responsible Mining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rubies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transparency]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fairjewelry.org/?p=3160</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Introduction:  
We now return to Greenland, to learn of the latest event from Niels Madsen, who continues to struggle to maintain right to collect rubies.  




(Niels Madsen)



After the home rule government came into power last June 21st, there was some optimism that small scale mining might be supported in Greenland.  Fair trade [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.fairjewelry.org/archives/3160/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Pornsawat Wathanakul, Greenland’s Bureau of Mining and Petroleum and True North Gems: The Smoking Gun of Collusion?</title>
		<link>http://www.fairjewelry.org/archives/2905</link>
		<comments>http://www.fairjewelry.org/archives/2905#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Valerio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Announcements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Trade Gems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greenland Rubies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rad Transparency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Responsible Mining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rubies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transparency]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fairjewelry.org/?p=2905</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Introduction:  
We now return back to Greenland, where the Inuits represented by the 16th August Union, continue in their negotiations with the Bureau of Mining and Petroleum (BMP).  Despite the advent of the new home rule government, and the optimism presented in early posts, The BMP continue to deny Inuit small scale mining [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.fairjewelry.org/archives/2905/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Greg Valerio Leaves Cred Jewellery</title>
		<link>http://www.fairjewelry.org/archives/2705</link>
		<comments>http://www.fairjewelry.org/archives/2705#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Valerio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Announcements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethical Jewelry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Trade Jewelry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greenland Rubies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rad Transparency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Responsible Mining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rubies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transparency]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fairjewelry.org/?p=2705</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Introduction:  Greg Valerio, a prominent activist in the fair trade jewelry movement, has officially resigned from his company.   Freed from the business he founded, he intends to focus on the fair trade jewelry issues exclusively.  See his resignation letter below.  Greg is also a staff writer for fairjewelry.org.

~ Marc Choyt, [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.fairjewelry.org/archives/2705/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Fair Trade Rubies From Tanzania By RubyFair Now Available In The North American Market</title>
		<link>http://www.fairjewelry.org/archives/2628</link>
		<comments>http://www.fairjewelry.org/archives/2628#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Announcements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethical Jewelry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rad Transparency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Responsible Mining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rubies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Initiatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transparency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wal-Mart 'Love Earth']]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fairjewelry.org/?p=2628</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Publisher’s Note:  
Rubyfair, a mining project involving fair trade rubies from Tanzania has been operating for about a year now, supplying jewelers primarily in the UK.  My company, Reflective Images, has just recently become the sales agent for US jewelers and consumers interested in these stones.  Those interested in these rubies can [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.fairjewelry.org/archives/2628/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>GIA Publishes Abstract Of The Greenland Ruby</title>
		<link>http://www.fairjewelry.org/archives/2544</link>
		<comments>http://www.fairjewelry.org/archives/2544#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Choyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Announcements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greenland Rubies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rad Transparency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rubies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trends]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fairjewelry.org/?p=2544</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[GIA Publishes Abstract Of The Greenland Ruby
As part of our ongoing coverage of Greenland ruby and related issues, here’s a Pdf link for a technical article from the GIA in Bangkok on the Greenland Ruby.
 Ruby and Pink Sapphire from Aappaluttoq, Greenland; Status of On-Going Research, GIA Lab, Bankok

Greenland Ruby in a locket by Reflective [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.fairjewelry.org/archives/2544/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>What Is A Fair Trade Gem?</title>
		<link>http://www.fairjewelry.org/archives/2443</link>
		<comments>http://www.fairjewelry.org/archives/2443#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Choyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CSR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethical Jewelry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Trade Gems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rad Transparency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Responsible Mining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rubies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transparency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trends]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fairjewelry.org/?p=2443</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ethically sourced gems involve developing an entirely new approach to the supply chain that,  in principal, is similar to the slow food, organics movement.   Just as people want the link between farm to table, those developing a fair trade gemstone product are looking for the mine to market custody chain.
Though some gemstones, [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.fairjewelry.org/archives/2443/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Greenland Ruby Update:  Part III: The King of Ruby Mountain</title>
		<link>http://www.fairjewelry.org/archives/2337</link>
		<comments>http://www.fairjewelry.org/archives/2337#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Valerio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethical Jewelry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Trade Gems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greenland Rubies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rad Transparency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Responsible Mining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rubies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transparency]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fairjewelry.org/?p=2337</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In this, the third of the three posts, Greg describes the astonishing experience of discovering ruby in Greenland. 
~ Marc Choyt, publisher
Part of the allure of Greenland&#8217;s majestic mountain scenery is its vast richness and beauty.  I cannot begin to describe the sense of sheer exhilaration I felt climbing Ruby mountain above the Greenlandic [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.fairjewelry.org/archives/2337/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Day of Eternal Light: Negotiations With The Greenlandic Government</title>
		<link>http://www.fairjewelry.org/archives/2335</link>
		<comments>http://www.fairjewelry.org/archives/2335#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Valerio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethical Jewelry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Trade Gems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greenland Rubies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rad Transparency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Responsible Mining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rubies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transparency]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fairjewelry.org/?p=2335</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In this post, the second of four, Greg Valerio, fair trade activist and staff writer,  discusses the paradigm shift in Greenland after their independence, and the actual negotiations with the Greenlandic Bureau of Mining and Petroleum. 
The Greenlandic Bureau of Mining and Petroleum was so ignorant of small scale Inuit ruby mining that they [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.fairjewelry.org/archives/2335/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Greenland Ruby Update by Greg Valerio:  Part 1: The Journey</title>
		<link>http://www.fairjewelry.org/archives/2333</link>
		<comments>http://www.fairjewelry.org/archives/2333#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Valerio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Trade Gems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greenland Rubies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rad Transparency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Responsible Mining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rubies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transparency]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fairjewelry.org/?p=2333</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When Greenland got home rule on June 21st, Greg Valerio, fair trade jewellery activist and staff writer for Fairjewelry.org, was there to negotiate with the new Home Rule Government in support of the 16 August Union.  
In Part 1 of this post, The Journey,  Greg provides context for the visit.  
In Part [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.fairjewelry.org/archives/2333/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
