Sourcing

A lot of crystal businesses now get asked about ethics and sourcing as this is understandably a growing concern. 

Therefore, we are supplying here our ethic and sourcing guidelines to explain and support your decision in shopping at Dragon Mama Crystals, and this information may be useful to getting a further explanation. 

Currently there are no legal rights for crystals, so for example they can not currently get a fairtrade label, so it has become increasingly important to make sure that we are getting the happiest crystals possible!

Currently in the UK we do not have any of our own mines that we can go and hand pick the crystals ourselves (we wish!) and due to being a small independent company and the current conditions we can not travel to other countries to go and source for ourselves. So we therefore have established and built trustworthy connections across the globe for a sustainable sourcing, with loving care. We believe that in some circumstances certain government run and controlled mines can have an effect on the conditions of some mines. We like to make sure that the crystals are mined with sustainable standards, with fair wage, and in the most modest way of mining. So that the labour, conditions, carbon footprint and impact is fair. 

We would never knowingly purchase any crystals that are from any working conditions that don't follow the best conditions. There are many small independent family run businesses globally, like us, who have passed down generational teachings, that have then passed it on to those they have employed, or family members, etc. So fully knowing the conditions after being passed from location to location, from family to family, is extremely hard for any business, realistically, which makes it very unrealistic as a business to have a title 'ethical' unless you fully know the exact source, location and business or family that have hand picked them. Which is not unheard of, but still rare. We respect that each society and culture is different, but we also respect the way the crystals are treated and produced. So we will always tune into the crystals energy, and the sellers, by this we can read the energetical information at hand. 

We have extremely trustworthy wholesalers, and they are small independent ran, also single parents like myself who runs this business, because I found I connect with them on a deeper emotional level.