It's the gold that Pam Mortensen has come here to see. Mortensen, 52, is in charge of buying fine jewelry for Wal-Mart. And recently she has moved the world's largest retailer to the forefront of a loose alliance of businesses and environmental groups that have set out to clean up gold mining, one of the world's dirtiest industries.
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Green Gold? Wal-Mart and Tiffany are trying to clean up the gold-mining industry. Not everyone i
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Submitted by AC89 on Thu, 2008-09-04 20:42. | Tags: fashion | child labor | cyanide | gold | habitat destruction | Jewelry | mining | social responsibility | tiffany | walmart | water pollution
NY Times article on the disasterous Pebble Mine project in Alaska
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Vote in Alaska Puts Question: Gold or Fish? Just up the fish-rich rivers that surround this tiny bush town on Bristol Bay is a discovery of copper and gold so vast and valuable that no one seems able to measure it all. Then again, no one really knows the value of the rivers, either. They are the priceless headwaters of one of the world’s last great runs of Pacific salmon.
Submitted by AC89 on Sun, 2008-08-24 05:47. | Tags: nature | Alaska | copper | gold | Jewelry | Pebble mine | salmon | tiffany | toxics | water pollution | wildlife habitat destruction
Jewelry Yellow Page Directory
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Jewelry Stores yellow pages including jewelry directory. Searching to find jewelry stores by choosing states or category
Submitted by paladin on Wed, 2007-09-12 07:50. | Tags: fashion | amber | antique | armoire | beaded | celtic | christian | costume | crystal | Designers | diamonds | fashion | gold | handmade | jeweler | Jewelry | kays | personalized | religious | silver | supplier | tiffany | titanium | turquoise | vintage | wholesale | yellow pages | zales