Montana Sapphires Latest Addition to Mejuri’s Sustainability Storytelling

By Karen Dybis | October 07, 2026

Mejuri is adding Montana sapphires to its Salmon Gold fine jewelry collection, an extension of what the Canadian jewelry brand describes as its fully traceable North American sourcing story.

The Toronto-based company in September said it replaced lab-grown diamonds with Montana sapphires in the latest Salmon Gold collection pieces, calling it an “evolution” for the collection.

Mejuri added four new styles using Montana sapphires: two rings, a charm, and a pair of earrings. Prices ranges from $498 for the River Ring to $648 for the River Drop earrings to $896 for the River pendant necklace.

In recent months, Mejuri has shared with media outlets including The Wall Street Journal how it is examining its supply chain given gold prices hovering between $4,000 to $5,000, as well as introducing new metals (including stainless steel) into its collections.

Interestingly, this shift to Salmon Gold and the addition of Montana sapphires further highlights how Mejuri is marketing “nature-positive jewelry” to its audience.

Mejuri salmon — *Mejuri Open Dôme Twin River ring ($698) with Montana sapphires and 14k yellow Salmon Gold*

The company introduced Salmon Gold in 2024, partnering with Regeneration, a restoration and metals recovery social enterprise. Mejuri in 2023 invested $1.5 million in Regeneration as a founding partner and strategic advisor. As Regeneration’s exclusive jewelry partner, Mejuri has rights to purchase gold and silver.

Salmon Gold as a collection isn’t pink or made from salmon. Rather, Mejuri said, the name reflects the work Regeneration is doing to bring salmon and other migratory fish back to gold-mining damaged streams and rivers across North America.

The Salmon Gold collection with Montana sapphires also reflects its sourcing. It is meant to look fluid, much like the waters it is helping to restore, says Nicole Ghosn, Mejuri’s senior director of product design.

“Last year we used lab-grown diamonds with the Salmon Gold pieces. This year we went looking for a stone from North America, which brought us to Montana pretty quickly,” Ghosn tells JCK. “Mejuri started in Canada and most of our business is in the United States, so having a whole collection sourced from here has been on our list for a long time.”

Ghosn was drawn in by Montana sapphire’s beautiful shades of blue. The collection came out of the water at the sites Mejuri is helping restore, so on the Open Dôme River charm, she says they chose to use several stones at once to get closer to light sitting on a surface.

“We worked in tension and partial tension settings and left as much of each stone uncovered as we could,” Ghosn says. “If you bezel one of these or run prongs across it, you’ve given away the reason you bought it. Open Dôme has always been about echoing nature rather than illustrating it, and the stones handle a lot of that themselves.”

Salmon Gold also influences the jewelry’s design, she says.

“You know exactly where the metal came from and what it did on the way here, and it slows you down in a useful way,” Ghosn says. “We kept coming back to the shapes water makes without any help—a ripple opening out from one point, a wave that gets bigger and then settles back into the surface it came from. Fluidity is the language for Open Dôme and we’re not finished with it.”

Online comments about the new pieces have been largely positive, including one on Mejuri’s Instagram from Positive Luxury: “The story behind a piece matters. Love seeing traceability and environmental impact brought to the forefront! We’re so proud to have Mejuri as part of our Butterfly Mark community.”

Top: Mejuri Open Dôme River charm ($498) and River Drop earrings ($648) with Montana sapphires in 14k yellow Salmon Gold (Photos courtesy of Mejuri)