04/22/2026
Earth Day is every day when your gold has a paper trail .
Today I’m thinking about where things come from. The hands that mine, the communities that depend on those mines, the land that holds all of it. It’s easy to make beautiful things. It’s harder — and more important — to make them responsibly. No way around it, jewelry-making is an inherently extractive industry that is not always kind to the planet, so it’s important to me to do my part in my small corner.
Stone Everett uses Fairmined certified gold whenever possible: sourced from small-scale artisanal mines with the highest environmental and social standards. Fair pay, safer conditions, a direct investment back into mining communities. Gold with a story worth telling.
Full disclosure: as recently noted, producing exclusively in Fairmined gold is genuinely difficult right now due to manufacturing and supply constraints. I’m proud that all my wax-carved pieces are cast in Fairmined gold, thanks to , and that I can offer a limited selection of ready-made chain and findings thanks to rivaprecision. For studio fabrication and milling, I’m working through my existing stock of recycled gold — blending it with Fairmined to make ingots or direct casts rather than letting it go to waste. Any new casting grain I order is Fairmined. It’s a slow move toward 100%, and I’m committed to it.
Happy Earth Day, get outside and smell some flowers.
Thanks to .quart for the videography.
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