Conflict-Free Sourcing

The Kimberley Process is an international certification scheme introduced in 2003 to stop rough diamonds funding armed conflict against legitimate governments. It has meaningfully reduced that trade.

But its definition is narrow. It addresses rebel-financed conflict specifically, and does not by itself address labour conditions, environmental damage, or state-sponsored abuses. A stone can be Kimberley-certified and still come from a supply chain you would not choose.

We buy from a small number of suppliers we have worked with for years, and we favour sources that can demonstrate chain of custody from the mine rather than only at the point of export.

Where we cannot establish provenance to our satisfaction, we do not buy the parcel. That costs us stones, which is the point.

Lab-grown diamonds sidestep mining entirely, which some clients prefer. They are not automatically the lower-impact choice — growth is energy-intensive, and that energy's source matters — but the supply chain is short and fully traceable.

If you want to know where a specific stone came from, ask. We will tell you what we know and be straightforward about the limits of what anyone can verify.