1. Workshop 9th September 2007 CASM’s 7th ACC, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia
Fair Trade Minerals Opportunities, Challenges and Finding a Way Forward for Sustainable ASM
Workshop
9th September 2007
CASM’s 7th ACC, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia
I believe we are at a critical moment in deciding what Fair Trade minerals will actually be able to achieve in terms of enabling sustainable development.
It is therefore my aim to present to you some of the opportunities for meeting the goals of Fair Trade, as well as some of the challenges that are likely to disrupt the path to Fair Trade. I will also give a brief overview of what to expect in the Fair Trade workshop happening later today.

2. Fair Trade Session Objectives
To contribute to ARM's FT process.
To produce recommendations on how to tackle several of the challenges related to building sustainable ASM communities through FT certification.
To consider what CASM’s role should be in implementing these recommendations and in the FT movement generally.
Before I finish, I’d like to set out how we’re going to do the workshop.
The session objectives are as follows:
To contribute to ARM's FT process.
To produce recommendations on how to tackle several of the challenges related to building sustainable ASM communities through FT certification.
To consider what CASM’s role should be in implementing these recommendations and in the FT movement generally.

3. Fair Trade Session Presentations
Pilot testing standard zero for FT gold in Latin America
Cristina Echavarría, ARM
ARM Pilot Project for FT gold in Bolivia
Daniel Lafuente, Cumbre del Sajama
The potential for FT gold in Papua New Guinea
Trevor Neale, WAU Ecology
From Mines to Markets – Developing Feasible Systems of FT for Gems and Gold
Sally DeLeon Dickinson, University of Vermont
Ethics and Integrity in the Contemporary Marketplace
Vivien Johnston, Fifi Bijoux
Before I finish, I’d like to set out how we’re going to do the workshop.
The session objectives are as follows:
To contribute to ARM's FT process.
To produce recommendations on how to tackle several of the challenges related to building sustainable ASM communities through FT certification.
To consider what CASM’s role should be in implementing these recommendations and in the FT movement generally.

4. Fair Trade Session Questions
FT gold in Asia & Africa?
Where are possible pilot sites in Asia?
What are the specific opportunities and challenges?
What are the challenges and opportunities for expanding Fair Trade into other minerals?
jewellery relevant
non-jewellery relevant
How do we deal with overdemand without undermining the FT process?
What are the possible models for ramping up supply? e.g.
What role should CASM have in these efforts?
The main questions we’ll be considering after the presentations are:
Where can we find potential sites for producing FT gold in Asia? And what are the challenges and opportunities for FT gold in Asia?
What are the challenges and opportunities for expanding FT into other minerals?
How do we deal with overdemand in a way which protects the interests of artisanal mining communities and the goals of FT?
What role should CASM have in all these efforts?

5. Fair Trade Session CASM & Fair Trade
2005 – MDGs & ASM conference in Washington, D.C.
Fair Trade side event
2005 – 5th ACC in Brazil
Fair Trade breakout group
2006 –6th ACC in Madagascar
Fair Trade workshop
Financial support to those working on FT to attend
2006 – formation of the CASM FT Working Group
Christopher Sheldon, Sally Dickinson DeLeon, Catalina Cock, Estelle Levin
2007 –7th ACC in Mongolia
2007 – principal host and funder of the Madison Dialogue summit in Washington, D.C. in October
Financial support to ARM, e.g. a DGF granted for the scoping studies in Africa
Before I finish, I’d like to set out how we’re going to do the workshop.
The session objectives are as follows:
To contribute to ARM's FT process.
To produce recommendations on how to tackle several of the challenges related to building sustainable ASM communities through FT certification.
To consider what CASM’s role should be in implementing these recommendations and in the FT movement generally.

6. Fair Trade Session Discussions & Recommendations
Where are the possible pilot sites for FT gold in Asia and Africa?
COUNTRY POTENTIAL PARTNER
PAPUA NEW GUINEA WAU Ecology
MONGOLIA SAM project
THAILAND Consult World Gemstone Consulting Co.
ETHIOPIA Ministry of Mines
ZAMBIA Mayfair / Ministry of Mines
Suggestion to study Indian demand for jewellery and gold supply chain from Africa to India
EAL doing project on role of India and Indians in gold supply chains in and from East Africa, as part of project on the changing geography of development in India – East Africa relations, involving a consortium of universities and research institutions, led by the University of Cambridge
Before I finish, I’d like to set out how we’re going to do the workshop.
The session objectives are as follows:
To contribute to ARM's FT process.
To produce recommendations on how to tackle several of the challenges related to building sustainable ASM communities through FT certification.
To consider what CASM’s role should be in implementing these recommendations and in the FT movement generally.

7. Fair Trade Session Discussions & Recommendations
CASM’S Role?
Involve the regional CASMs in identifying potential sites in Africa & Asia
Support ARM in conducting scoping studies in Asia
Identify Asian and African countries that allow the private export of gold (i.e. not through a central bank).
Before I finish, I’d like to set out how we’re going to do the workshop.
The session objectives are as follows:
To contribute to ARM's FT process.
To produce recommendations on how to tackle several of the challenges related to building sustainable ASM communities through FT certification.
To consider what CASM’s role should be in implementing these recommendations and in the FT movement generally.

8. Fair Trade Session Discussions & Recommendations
What are the challenges & opportunities for expanding FT into other minerals?
Potential in two areas:
‘feel good’ industrial minerals, e.g. ornamental stones, dimension stones, could be FT certified
construction materials and other industrial minerals could be certified in some other way?
evidence of demand for both,
construction materials in the UK,
dimension stones exported from India to Australia,
‘ethical coltan’ for a socially responsible defense industry!
evidence of supply for both, e.g. Uganda (vermiculite), India (dimension stones)
Before I finish, I’d like to set out how we’re going to do the workshop.
The session objectives are as follows:
To contribute to ARM's FT process.
To produce recommendations on how to tackle several of the challenges related to building sustainable ASM communities through FT certification.
To consider what CASM’s role should be in implementing these recommendations and in the FT movement generally.

9. Fair Trade Session Discussions & Recommendations
What are the challenges & opportunities for expanding FT into other minerals?
Large number of artisanal miners involved
opportunity for poverty reduction
Minimal attention given to industrial minerals by CASM to date
Carbon footprint of transporting industrial minerals (compared to jewellery minerals) undermines the ethical credentials somewhat.
Before I finish, I’d like to set out how we’re going to do the workshop.
The session objectives are as follows:
To contribute to ARM's FT process.
To produce recommendations on how to tackle several of the challenges related to building sustainable ASM communities through FT certification.
To consider what CASM’s role should be in implementing these recommendations and in the FT movement generally.

10. Fair Trade Session Discussions & Recommendations
What are the challenges & opportunities for expanding FT into other minerals?
Thinking is already developed
Durban Process was developing system for certifying and tracing coltan, cassiterite from DRC
BGR is conducting research on certifying industrial minerals, including stanniferous metals (e.g. coltan), and has pilot projects working on these
find synergies and synchronise efforts to certify industrial minerals
different types of certification could complement each other
a.) origin (to prevent supporting ‘conflict’ minerals, etc.)
b.) social, environmental, labour standards
Before I finish, I’d like to set out how we’re going to do the workshop.
The session objectives are as follows:
To contribute to ARM's FT process.
To produce recommendations on how to tackle several of the challenges related to building sustainable ASM communities through FT certification.
To consider what CASM’s role should be in implementing these recommendations and in the FT movement generally.

11. Fair Trade Session Discussions & Recommendations
CASM’s Role?
Conduct desk research and eventually scoping studies to characterise the sector, incorporating gender and quality issues and identifying opportunities and challenges for different types of certification
partnership between FT working group and BGR to investigate potential for certifying industrial minerals as FT?
Commission research into the potential market for industrial minerals
Look at the LEED standards for Green Building, and start dialogue with Initiatives such as the US Green Building Policy, re. ethical sourcing
Identify interested parties
Assess interest and market potential
Assess potential obstacles and opportunities for FT building
Identify interior designers, architects, builders through building relations with relevant associations in developed countries
 DESIGN STRATEGY FOR SOME TYPE OF ‘ETHICAL’ CERTIFICATION OF ASM INDUSTRIAL MINERALS
Before I finish, I’d like to set out how we’re going to do the workshop.
The session objectives are as follows:
To contribute to ARM's FT process.
To produce recommendations on how to tackle several of the challenges related to building sustainable ASM communities through FT certification.
To consider what CASM’s role should be in implementing these recommendations and in the FT movement generally.