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

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. In contrast to the mining practices of yesteryear, fine jeweler Mejuri is launching a new line of jewelry that places...