Protecting the environment

The devastating effect of diamond and gold mining on the environment is well documented. In many underdeveloped parts of the world, mining corporations exploit weak governments and lax environmental laws by tearing gold and diamonds from the earth in the cheapest, often most damaging way possible.  Such methods as open-pit mining, strip mining, and chemical extraction leave behind a poisoned, dead landscape that can never be restored.  Some of these places are like nightmares come to life: gaping wounds in the Earth where nothing grows, no one can live, animals flee and fish wash up dead onshore, and the air and water are filled with toxic dust and sludge.  The abandoned Mirny mine in Siberia is so deep that it has created its own atmospheric low-pressure zone overhead; miles of surrounding air is sucked down into the shaft, making the area so dangerously unstable that nothing can fly through it.

We do not consider this “progress.”

Diamond Nexus gemstones are created in clean laboratory conditions, using environmentally friendly processes with no toxic byproducts or pollutants.  In all cases possible, we obtain our precious metals only from Canadian mines: the most well-regulated and environmentally safe source.