The SA is made up of organisations, individuals, consultants and other supporters committed to ARM’s aims and objectives.

Artminers, USA

Artminers aim to use education as a means of encouraging the adoption of sustainable, clean mining methods by the world’s poorest miners. It seeks to promote sustainable mining and improve the working conditions of artisanal and small-scale miners, particularly in relation to child labour, education, gender equality and health.
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Asociación Regional de Productores Mineros Artesanales del Sur Medio y Centro del Perú (AMASUC) [Mid-Southern and Central Peru Regional Association of Artisanal Miners], Peru

AMASUC represents, campaigns for and defends the rights of 36 organizations of artisanal and small-scale miners in Mid-Southern and Central Peru. Its work is focused on lobbying for improvements in the legislation governing ASM and support for the formalisation of the ASM sector and the development of entrepreneurial skills, key factors in overcoming the obstacles faced by artisanal and small-scale mining communities and their families.
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Asociación de Mineros del Bajo Cauca y Nordeste Antioqueño (ASOMINEROS) [Association of Lower Cauca and North-Eastern Antioquia Miners], Colombia

ASOMINEROS is a not-for-profit company formed by 38 small-scale gold-miners' organizations in the region, most of them working in the informal sector. The association's main object is to promote the formalisation of the small-scale mining sector and the growth of the incorporated mining enterprises.
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Both ENDS (Netherlands)

Both ENDS is a Dutch NGO that supports individuals and social organisations all over the world whose specialisation is ecological sustainability and social justice. Its main focus is the realisation of sustainable forms of natural resource management and to promote policymaking in the Netherlands as well as worldwide.
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Brilliant Earth, USA

Brilliant Earth grew out of a marriage proposal. After Beth's fiancé was unable to find a reliable source that could guarantee conflict-free diamonds, Beth Gerstein and Eric Grossberg created Brilliant Earth to provide certified conflict-free diamonds as an alternative to current diamond industry practices.
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Center for Mineral Technology (CETEM), Brazil

CETEM aims to develop technology for the sustainable use of mineral resources in Brazil. Founded in 1978, CETEM has undertaken more than 750 technological research projects assisting a variety of enterprises in the mining and metalworking and chemistry of materials sectors.
Visit CETEM’s website

COCOMACOIRO and ASOCASAN, Colombia

The Community Council of Condoto (COCOMACOIRO) and the Community Council of Tadó (ASOCASAN) are responsible for the administration of collective territories, local co-ordination of community development projects and provision of organizational reinforcement, support, internal audit and technical assistance for certified miners. They are key partners in the Oro Verde initiative.
Contact ASOCASAN for further information

Corporación Oro Verde [Green Gold Corporation] (Colombia)

A partnership between the Community Councils of Tadó and Condoto, Fundación Las Mojarras and Fundación Amigos del Chocó whose aim is to promote the wellbeing of communities in the Chocó ecoregion.  With a focus on building sustainable livelihoods in the context of green and fair trade markets, the Oro Verde initiative seeks to promote responsible mining practices in one of the world's biodiversity hot spots.  Corporación Oro Verde currently produces the only certified ASM gold available on the market.
Visit Corporación Oro Verde’s website

Corporation for Economic Opportunity, USA

Corporation for Economic Opportunity supports initiatives and programmes benefitting artisanal miners in West Africa. They are founding members of the Peace Diamond Alliance. They are also promoting a special initiative to teach the women of mining communities in Liberia to shape and polish corundum into jewellery components.
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Cred Jewellery / Cred Foundation, UK

CRED is a fair trade jewellery company that supplies customers with excellent quality, competitively priced, design-led wedding jewellery that also addresses the social and environmental issues that are present in the jewellery world.  It develops relationships with small-scale miners who work to strict environmental criteria.

CRED Foundation has as its mission to undertake research, education and advocacy and partner the global poor by providing practical resources to help enable poor communities to develop productive and self-sustainable livelihoods.
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Cumbre del Sajama S.A., Bolivia

Cumbre del Sajama is a private sector company that undertakes research, training and certification projects and programmes. The company supports the transformation of ASM into a responsible sustainable activity capable of reducing the potential for conflict within its sphere of influence by providing organizations with training and marketing skills.
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FBME, Tanzania

African Precious Metals (APM) Gold is a newly-formed subsidiary of FBME Bank that buys and sells gold in a formalized fair trade operation. APM Gold has constructed five Fair Trade Centres with a view to improving the business environment for many of the miners operating in the informal sector.
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Federación Regional De Cooperativas Mineras Auríferas (FERRECO) [Regional Confederation of Gold-mining Co-operatives], Bolivia

This is the umbrella organisation for all the gold-mining co-operatives in the North of the Department of La Paz. It is affiliated to the National Federation of Mining Co-operatives of Bolivia which has a membership of over 60,000 miners.
Contact FERRECO for further information

Fifi Bijoux, Scotland

Fifi Bijoux is a brand which believes in promoting positive ethics and is committed to making a positive contribution to the people and the communities from which it purchases its materials. The brand carries these values to its customers, who benefit from an ethical, luxury product with the added value of knowing the provenance of the materials.
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Fundación Amigos del Chocó (AMICHOCO), Colombia

AMICHOCO promotes sustainable development and improved quality of life in the Chocó ecoregion of Colombia through productive projects. Its main areas of activity are environmental communications and education, green and fair trade markets and research. It was one of the organizations involved in the initial stages of the development of the Green Gold initiative.
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Fundación Salud, Ambiente y Desarrollo (FUNSAD) [Foundation for Health, Environment and Development], Ecuador
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Fundamojarras, Colombia

Fundamojarras, an NGO based in Condoto which aims to promote environmental, ethnic and territorial integration in the Chocó region, was set up by Chocó research workers and practitioners to provide support for the grassroots organizational work of the Community Councils.

Instituto de Investigaciones Ambientales del Pacífico (IIAP) [Environmental Research Institute of the Pacific], Colombia

Based in Chocó, Colombia, IIAP engages in scientific and technological research aimed at improving living conditions for the local population through environmental stewardship and sustainable use of natural resources, and provides the Colombian Ministry of the Environment with scientific and technical support for the sustainable development of the Chocó ecoregion. The Institute's members include the indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities of the Pacific coast of Colombia.
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Institute For Cultural Ecology (ICE), USA

Founded on the conviction that visits to exotic destinations imply a commitment to cultural sensitivity and environmental stewardship. Our programs match the interests, academic goals, and passions of the participant to select host organisations and researchers.
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Instituto Redes de Desarrollo Social (Red Social) [Social Development Networks Institute (Social Network)], Peru

Red Social is an NGO working with artisanal and small-scale miners of the Mid-South in the departments of Ica, Ayacucho and Arequipa and the Puno region. It has formed a strategic alliance with Asociación Regional de Productores Mineros Artesanales del Sur Medio y Centro del Perú (AMASUC) on issues relating to ASM.
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Reflective Images Inc, USA

Reflective Images Inc is a manufacturer and retailer committed to mine-to-market transparency and fair trade practices. The company's president Marc Choyt authors the trade and consumer resource www.fairjewelry.org, Google’s top rated “fair trade jewelry” site. The company has also developed the “Fair, Responsible, Eco-Friendly” (FRE) system which enables customers to trace the origin of components and the labor practices that make up a piece of jewelry via one of their websites.
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Rust Belt

Page H. Neal and Anna Bario are jewelry designer. Their collection uses reclaimed metals and salvaged chain whenever possible with the aim of promoting a more responsible jewelry industry.
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S&P Trading, France

S&P Trading is a company trading precious metals, including gold and platinum-group metals, in most of the currently available forms (alluvial, bars, dross, ore, waste) while implementing fair trade procedures and philosophy. It aims to promote co-operation at technical, logistic, commercial and financial levels. 

The Center is a research institute providing basic and continuing workforce education in the fields of geology, energy, mining and the environment, conducting basic and applied research in areas of national concern, offering access to bibliographic resources and providing rock and mineral identification services.
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Estelle Levin, UK

Estelle Levin is a geographer working as a consultant on minerals and sustainability. She specialises in minerals certification, conflict and post-conflict minerals management, sustainable livelihoods and the political economy of artisanal minerals exploitation, trade and export.
Contact Estelle Levin

Gabriela Factor, Argentina

Gabriela Factor is an Argentinian environment and development consultant.  She is an environmental engineer with substantial experience in traditional areas of engineering science such as environmental impact of mining, cleaner technologies and solid waste management, as well as in areas including awareness-raising, capacity-building and gender issues.  Ms Factor has hands-on experience in training rural and mining communities, grassroots organizations, technical staff and governmental officials in both environmental and gender issues, as well as risk management and emergency prevention planning, participatory initiatives to promote awareness, environmentally-friendly planning procedures and social audit.
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