Category Archives: Ethical Jewellery

Blog articles on ethical jewellery, conflict free diamonds and fairtrade gold.

Fairtrade Gold vs Regular Gold – a Comparison for Jewellery

Sotrami Gold Miners, Peru, Image credit Eduardo Martino

Sotrami Gold miners, Peru. Photo credit Eduardo Martino. Today’s post is meant as a short update to increase awareness of the changes we have made to the price of Fairtrade Gold over regular 18ct Gold on our website. Earlier this month, we decided to level the price of regular 18ct Gold jewellery, to match the more Read the full article…

About Mark Johnson

Mark founded Isle of Wight jewellers Serendipity Diamonds in 2007 after a career on the polished diamonds industry. Today he works in the Serendipity showroom, helping clients with jewellery, creating handmade designs and updating their two jewellery websites SerendipityDiamonds.com and Isle-of-Wight-Jewellery.co.uk

Fairtrade Gold Engagement Rings – A Small Cost for a Better Future

Fairtrade Gold Engagement Rings - Introduced as an option for engagement rings by Serendipity Diamonds in Summer 2014

What is a Fairtrade Gold? “Fairtrade certified gold is the world’s first independent ethical certification system for gold.” “Achieving Fairtrade certification requires small-scale mining organisations to meet rigorous Fairtrade standards on working conditions, child labour, women’s rights, clean technology, health and safety, organisational management, democratic decision-making, transparency and traceability of their mining operations and responsible environmental management, Read the full article…

About Mark Johnson

Mark founded Isle of Wight jewellers Serendipity Diamonds in 2007 after a career on the polished diamonds industry. Today he works in the Serendipity showroom, helping clients with jewellery, creating handmade designs and updating their two jewellery websites SerendipityDiamonds.com and Isle-of-Wight-Jewellery.co.uk