Dubai’s first conflict gold audit never saw the light of day

According to a recently released Global Witness report ‘City of Gold’ and a former partner at Ernst & Young, the firm turned a blind eye when major audit failures at Dubai’s biggest gold refinery went unpublished. The report alleges that the...

iTSCi extends into conflict-free areas of North Kivu, DRC

Preparations have got underway to extend the iTSCi traceability and due diligence programme into North Kivu, DRC to work at the mine concession of Mwangachuchu Hizi International (MHI) in Masisi Territory from where conflict-free minerals could be exported in a few...

Starting Now, All Intel Microprocessors Are Conflict-Free

The CEO of Intel, Brian Krzanich used his keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas to announce that every microprocessor that Intel ships in 2014 will be made using conflict-free minerals. Krzanich, who previously led Intel’s supply...