This technology has been labelled by the Solar Impulse Foundation as an ecological and profitable solution to today’s environmental challenges.
Let’s find out in more detail what environmental impact this will have in terms of the United Nations’ sustainable development objectives (SDGs).
Water, a crucial issue
A 5g gold ring = 500 showers
In 1 year, DAUMET would save 10 years of water consumption for the city of Paris.
Produce differently
Strong relocation of surface treatment to Asia over the last 15 years
Reindustrialise in France, while promoting artisanal miners in developing countries.
Consume less and better
Demand for jewelry increases with the world’s population
Using gold more efficiently by substituting it wherever our technology allows (100tonnes=4% annual consumption)
Concrete action for the climate
1kg of gold = 12500 kg of greenhouse gases emitted
DAUMET would extinguish the carbon footprint of the city of Paris every year.
Protecting marine life
Seabed mining
Making maximum use of the earth’s soil resources rather than destroying unexplored ecosystems
Protecting life on earth
Deforestation, mining waste, mercury pollution…
Hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest conserved and with them the biodiversity that lives there
If we manage to develop our solid white gold, we will save more than 200 tonnes of palladium and rhodium per year. Although these two metals pose different problems, they would represent an environmental impact almost 10 times greater than the one explained above .
Climate change and the increasing scarcity of raw materials are major challenges that we will have to address collectively. DAUMET is taking an active part in these issues in the field of precious metals, with a potentially very important ambition on a global scale.
Since its creation, DAUMET has always used only recycled gold and now wishes to take a step forward in its responsible approach.
In 2019, DAUMET thus acquired a FAIRMINED licence in order to diversify its gold sources by the end of 2020 and thus support artisanal mining communities in their economic and social development and to ensure the limitation of the environmental impact linked to gold extraction.
Through this action, DAUMET is helping to provide a concrete response to the CSR issues of the Houses with which it works.
