London Jeweller Ingle & Rhode Receives First Ever Shipment of Certified Fairtrade & Fairmined Gold from AURELSA

London Jeweller Ingle & Rhode Receives First Ever Shipment of Certified Fairtrade & Fairmined Gold from AURELSA PR Newswire LONDON, July 20, 2012 LONDON, July 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- thGrowth of Fairtrade gold industry marked by 4 shipment Demand from consumers for fairtrade gold continues to grow Availability of fairtrade gold in the UK improves for ethical consumers Ingle & Rhode (www . ingleandrhode . co . uk) and S&P Trading, announce the arrival of the first ever batch of certified Fairtrade & Fairmined gold from The Comunidad Aurifera Relave S.A (The Relave Gold Community or AURELSA), a small community in Peru. AURELSA received Fairtrade & Fairmined gold certification in May 2012 following a series of independent audits by FLO- Cert, the leading international social certification body that is responsible for verifying compliance with the Fairtrade & Fairmined gold standards. AURELSA is only the fourth gold producer in the world to obtain Fairtrade & Fairmined status, following in the footsteps of the Cotapata Mining Cooperative in Bolivia, SOTRAMI in Peru, and Oro Verde in Colombia. Fairtrade & Fairmined gold was launched in the UK on 14 February 2011, with the aim of ensuring that artisanal and small- scale miners can produce and sell gold without being exploited by middlemen, while working with fair pay and conditions, without child labour, and without polluting the environment.