Mejuri’s new ‘salmon gold’ earrings are made with gold from abandoned mining sites

The new sustainable jewelry line is called ‘salmon gold’ for its restoration of salmon’s natural environments, which are often destroyed during the mining process.

Mineral mining can be a dirty business. Historically, miners dredge, dam, and sift their way through rivers and streams to collect precious minerals and metals like gold below the surface. But unlike the sparkling result that lands on fingers and is pierced through ear lobes, the remaining mining site is anything but pretty. Ecologically, it’s often hostile.