We (heart) conflict free gold, when we can find it...

With Valentine's Day rapidly approaching, we want to thank our friends at ENOUGH for reminding us to think about our gift giving choices, and we're specifically talking gold jewelry here folks.

It is still the case that the gold trade in Congo fuels the conflict.  Children work the mines.  There are environmental impacts.

Here's information about making Congo's gold trade conflict-free from ENOUGH.

This article in Al Jazeera English gives an idea of the conditions the Congolese work in when mining gold.

And this recent article from Bloomberg BusinessWeek about the current state of gold mining in Congo.

I wasn't able to find you a one-stop site that tells if the jeweler you want to buy gold from can trace it back to a reputable mining source, but there are quite a few sites that taken together can probably help:

Fair Jewelry Action

Fair Trade and Fairmined Gold

No Dirty Gold

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