Diamonds in the news: Miners, conservationists, even jewelers at odds over mining
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Those necklaces, rings and watches in the jewelry case may be a lot more expensive than many people think, conservationists contend.
Jewelry also carries the cost of environmental damage from mining for their gold, silver and other precious metals, according to a new public relations campaign that is putting pressure on jewelry retailers to reject minerals from big polluters.
The campaign has already prompted the president of Tiffany & Co. to shift his attention from the jewelry cases on Fifth Avenue to the Cabinet Mountains wilderness area of Montana.
Tiffany recently purchased a large advertisement in The Washington Post to demand the federal government reject a proposed mine in the Montana wilderness and reform the 132-year-old law that encourages hardrock mining over conservation in the West.
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