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Following in the wake of the controversy over African ‘blood’ diamonds RECOGNISE investigates how South America is trying to clean up the image if its equally lucrative gold mining industry. Words Sarah Alcock THE GOLDEN AGE THE GOLD STANDARD – FACTS OF... More

Following in the wake of the controversy over African ‘blood’ diamonds RECOGNISE investigates how South America is trying to clean up the image if its equally lucrative gold mining industry. Words Sarah Alcock THE GOLDEN AGE THE GOLD STANDARD – FACTS OF THE INDUSTRY In 2010 £84billion was spent globally on gold jewellery India and the Middle East are the biggest gold consumers The UK is the second largest gold jewellery market in Europe after Italy There are around 15 million small-scale gold miners globally, producing some 200-300 tonnes of gold per year The internationally agreed price of gold is set twice a day by traders in the City of London Today more than 7. 5 million people – farmers, workers and their families, across 58 developing countries - benefit from the international fairtrade system uring the last decade, the jewellery industry became the subject of a huge amount of attention, but not for all the right reasons. With extensive campaigns enacted by non governmental org Less