I have the supreme good fortune of living 30 minutes away from Out of Our Mines' Arcata, CA headquarters. Out of Our Mines is a husband-and-wife team - Helen and Richard take great care to ensure that their materials are sourced ethically. The stones that I buy from them are all mined in the United States, and most of them are cut by a small family business in Sri Lanka. Helen and Richard have worked directly with this same family for many years and are committed to helping to improve their lives by paying them a fair and professional wage for their work and supporting their ongoing professional education, so you can rest assured that these stones are not the product of cheap mass production done by children in India or underpaid factory workers in China.

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