This panel features representatives of the Kimberley Process Civil Society Coalition to examine possible outcomes when falling demand for natural diamonds effects the physical and social obligations of keeping a mine site safe and honoring its responsibilities to the local community in which it resides. The money required to maintain tailings infrastructure, monitor for seepage, and prevent structural failure becomes harder to justify on a balance sheet, raising the risk of environmental disaster which the diamond industry can least. The consequences extend well beyond the mine site. Many communities surrounding these operations lost their traditional livelihoods, farming, grazing, or other land-based work, when mining moved in, and have since come to depend on mine employment, economy and the local development projects that mining revenue supported. The resulting loss of revenue to these communities has direct implications for household stability, women's economic empowerment initiatives, and access to basic services that were never backed by lasting infrastructure in the first place. We will discuss, what industry standards, accountability mechanisms, and stakeholder engagement frameworks can be implemented, upheld or developed to ensure equitable outcomes for affected communities and how mine safety and community support be sustained throughout a prolonged period of economic downturn.