Oro Verde™: The Most Loved Gold in the World

The Corporación Oro Verde is a collective of community, sustainability and environmental organisations from the Choco region of Colombia. Together they work with 12 Afro-Colombian communities to support small-scale alluvial mining operations. Oro Verde™ have pioneered an environmentally sustainable, socially responsible form of artisanal mining that seeks to preserve the unique and vital virgin rainforest ecosystems while providing a fair, regular source of income to miners, their families and their communities.

Oro Verde™ created the first Certified Green Gold programme in the world. Mines, miners and metals are independently audited by IIAP. This process ensures that all the Gold and Platinum sourced by Oro Verde™ is independently certified as Fairly Traded. As founder members of the Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM), Oro Verde™ and CRED worked together with the Fairtrade Labelling Organisation (FLO) towards the creation of the world’s first “Fair Trade Gold” standard - Fairtrade and Fairmined Gold, launched in February 2011.

We love Oro Verde™ here at CRED; we love them and we love what they stand for. We have been partnering with them since 2002, and we were the first retailer in Europe to sell Oro Verde™ certified Green Gold. Their two-track approach of supporting indigenous mining communities while restoring vital ecosystems is exactly the ethical, responsible focus that we seek in all we do.
Read the Oro Verde certification criteria.

As there is currently no international certification for platinum, we are proud to say that all our platinum is Oro Verde™ Fair Trade.

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