Martin's Ethical Journey

Martin ensures Fair Labour Conditions for his miners and involves the Local Community to Benefit directly or indirectly  from the activities.  Conservation and Protection of the Environment before and after mining as well as creating an awareness to protect among the locals. Totally Legal and Transparent Product Integrity sourcing, mining and authenticity of the Gems.

Local Community

Involvement

Martin ensures a year round income for the village, even in “off season” the village will get a rental income for the storage of the mining equipment. 

Clean Drinking Water

This local village in Tanzania never had any clean drinking water until Martin paid six men to dug a well in the hard rock down to six feet below the water table. Now the village got year round clean drinking water.

Feeding the community

Martin don’t feed the local village for a month or two, instead he supply them with bags of Corn Grain to plant their own fields and feed their families for the whole next year.

Local Mining

Mining Support

Martin literally supply mining support to the local artisanal miners, directly or indirectly in the form of food, tools, transport and even basic medical supplies.

Mining Education

Martin recognised a real hunger for mining and gemstone knowledge among the young and upcoming generation of local miners and entrepreneurs. Martin then formed a “Mentor / Educational” group to teach and equip them with “hands-on” local knowledge applicable to their specific mining environment.

Our commitment to ethical and environmentally responsible gems runs right through our core. In fact, with our sourcing and mining programme we actually give back way more than we take to the mining communities.