By Toby Pomeroy, Mercury Free Mining Founder and Executive Director, writing for IDEXonline, November 25th 2021 (http://www.idexonline.com/Memo?Id=47197) We are living in arguably the most abundant and innovative time in Earth’s history, with change happening at an exponential pace. We can be the drivers of the future we want our children and grandchildren to inherit. By now most are well-versed on … Read More
Mercury Free Mining and the Alliance for Responsible Mining Work to Reduce Mercury Use in Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining
GIA Grant Supports Effort The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) has awarded a $50,000 grant to Mercury Free Mining (MFM) and the Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM) to focus on mitigating mercury use in artisanal gold mining in Ananea, Peru. The grant provides funding to evaluate ore-testing processes that have the potential to significantly reduce or eliminate the inadvertent release … Read More
Minding the Gold We Mine: Turning the Tide
Written by MFM founder and director, Toby Pomeroy (pictured right). As a jewelry designer and goldsmith for more than 50 years, I’m thrilled that many jewelry companies, from independent makers to some of the industry’s most notable institutions are taking bold action to support the discovery and implementation of alternative processes so that 15~20 million gold miners will no longer … Read More
Your Gold’s (Potentially) Craggy Origins
Although gold is a modern necessity, as adornment, an antiviral, circuitry, and much more, we do not question its source. This is the first in a series of posts exploring the irreplaceable metal, from its origins, chemistry, and geology to extraction, processing, and much more, while placing an emphasis on ASGM’s role in the gold supply chain. Our journey begins … Read More
Lashbrook Signs on as Mercury Free Mining Premier Sponsor
Originally posted on National Jeweler. Read Original Article By Brecken Branstrator November 11, 2020 Corvallis, Ore.—Custom wedding ring manufacturer Lashbrook has become the 2020-2021 Premier Sponsor of the Mercury Free Mining (MFM) initiative. The company’s $50,000 contribution will help the program in its efforts to find effective technologies for the safe, mercury-free mining of gold, connect small-scale and artisanal miners … Read More
Bernd Wolf on Johnny Depp’s film Minamata, Greta Thunberg, and the Mercury Free Mining mission
The German jewelry publication Blicktpunk Juwelier spoke with jewelry designer Bernd Wolf, in their April 2020 interview entitled Sustainability in the Jewelery and Watch Industry. Bernd is a jewelry designer, and the managing director and founder of the Bernd Wolf Company in Freiburg, Germany, and has been a supporter of Mercury Free Mining since 2019. The interview covers topics such … Read More
Update on Coodmilla Gold Ore Testing
EXCITING NEW DEVELOPMENTS Since December of last year, MFM and the Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM) have been exploring opportunities to connect innovative green mining technologies with interested artisanal and small-scale mining (ASGM) communities to help them mine more efficiently and profitably, ending their need to use mercury. In a coordinated initiative between ARM, MFM, and Coodmilla, Ltda., a gold … Read More
CIBJO president’s message about COVID-19 – and our response
April 29, 2020 Dear Dr. Cavalieri, Thank you for your invitation to collaborate on designing our industry’s path forward so we can thrive in a novel, post-COVID world. We’re certainly in a different world from when I began my jewelry career more than 50 years ago as a designer-goldsmith. In 1966 gold cost $35 an ounce, 2% of its current price, … Read More