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*Caveat on using the term “recycled gold”:

While I am very careful to source my precious metals only from SCS® certified suppliers (SCS® stands for Supply Chain Sustainability; they are the global leader in the field of sustainability standards and third-party certification). Most of my precious metals suppliers are also members of the Responsible Jewellery Council. However, I want to point out that ‘recycling gold' is not what is commonly understood by the term.

True recycling avoids things ending up in landfills. Gold, of course, wouldn’t.

Instead, gold is simply melted, refined and repurposed.

Although SCS® certified refineries must maintain auditable records of their suppliers, there are loopholes globally which make it very easy for gold from unregulated and/or illegal sources to enter their supply chain.

This makes even 'certified recycled' gold untraceable.

Further reading:
Is Recycled Gold Ethical?
Materials, Sustainability, & Fairmined Metals

Notes

Lines

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These are some of the things I’ve been playing with/am inspired by I find that line so beautiful (it’s about two feet long; hard to tell here). But I am completely stumped at how to bring it into a relationship…

New Year, New Start

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Like the end of a sentence or the close in a musical phrase, the end of one year and beginning of the next carries with it a ripeness for new beginning, fresh start. We often take this opportunity to take…

Colliers traînant dans le parc

I really am newly inspired upon my return from visiting all those galleries. On a walk through the lovely Point Pleasant Park last weekend, I started seeing necklaces everywhere in the landscape around me. It will be interesting to see…

The Boston Report

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The trip to Boston was amazing, and freezing cold! Definitely worth it, though. I learned so much at the sessions at the Canadian embassy in Boston. We had a great welcome by the Honorable Consul General there, Patrick Binns, who…

Boston, here I come!

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I’m off to Boston on an ‘In-market Export Education program’ through Trade Team Nova Scotia. Exciting! Besides spending some time at the Canadian Consulate, there are some very interesting looking galleries there which I want to check out to see…

Made for you here!

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A couple of days ago my daughter and I paid a surprise visit to our friend Marguerite int heir new digs, which are gorgeous.  I showed her my new postcard, and that scene looked like this: Marguerite is a super…

Sent pieces out yesterday

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It’s been back to the studio this week, to finish orders that have been on hold because of all the work for the show. Yesterday, l sent work to a couple of galleries. Firstly, the lovely Mysteria Gallery, in Regina,…

Post-show

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Oh how I wish I had taken a photo of the cars of all the vendors lined up at the door last night, backs to the doors, noses to the street, everyone loading their wares and displays into their vans…

Stop by!

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The first day of the NSDCC Designer Craft Show in Halifax was wonderful. The good news is: my castings arrived yesterday finally, and I was busy in the studio well into the night to finish some of my brand-new sugar-drop…

NSDCC’s Designer Craft Show

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Welcome to my new site! Please come visit me again this year at the NSDCC’s Designer Craft Show on the Waterfront November 19-21, 2010 CUNARD EVENT CENTRE at Pier 23 – 961 Marginal Road, Halifax . For more information go…

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