Maria Doulton

This April, the Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM), which promotes standards and criteria for small-scale artisanal gold miners, published an open letter, signed by 10 other non-governmental organisations, headed “Old jewellery is not waste!”. Their aim was to contest the term “recycled gold”. The letter was addressed to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA), the Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC), and the Responsible Minerals…

Since the Olympics were revived, with the first modern Games in Athens in 1896, no significant jewellery collections have gone on sale to the public to mark the events — despite there being plenty of watches, notably from Omega. But, now, UK-based jeweller Mappin & Webb of the Watches of Switzerland Group has come up with an Olympic jewellery collection in collaboration with Team GB, the UK’s Olympic team. Announced in September, with a retail launch planned for late October, this is the first…

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The selling points for this virtually unknown precious material are strong, writes Maria Doulton