How to Pick the Right Metal for Your Sustainable Engagement Ring

It’s easy to get distracted by sapphires and diamonds when you’re shopping for a sustainable engagement ring, but your choice of metal is just as important. While metal has a major impact on the look and feel of your engagement ring, it also contributes to its environmental impact. 

At Valley Rose, we’re committed to using fairmined gold for our ethical engagement rings. We’ve chosen fairmined gold instead of recycled gold as it supports Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM), helping to create a more sustainable and ethical gold industry. In this article, we’re sharing our advice on how to pick the right metal for your Valley Rose engagement ring.

What Makes a Metal Sustainable?

Gold is one of the most popular metals for engagement rings and fine jewelry, but traditional mining methods are known for unfair labor practices and causing environmental harm. By comparison, fairmined gold is a sustainable alternative as it helps invest in the social and economic development of miners, their families, workers, and communities. 

At Valley Rose, we use fairmined gold in at least 95% of our jewelry designs, and our ethical engagement rings are available in rose gold, yellow gold, and white gold.

The 3 Shades of Gold: Which One Fits Your Style?

After choosing your gemstone, you’ll want to select the right fairmined gold for your engagement ring. There are 3 popular shades of gold, and they can drastically change the look of a design. 

You’ll get a taste of this when exploring our best-selling styles, like the ‘Elain Marquise Lab Diamond Engagement Ring’. We’re breaking down the 3 most popular gold colors to help you find the right match for your gemstone and setting.

Yellow Gold

Yellow gold is a hue that looks great on olive and darker skin tones, with its warm undertones and classic look. It’s the perfect option for a nature or vintage-inspired engagement ring, like our ‘Atlahua Emerald Cut Art Deco Ring’. Yellow gold will perfectly complement a lab diamond or colored sapphires with similar warm tones.

White Gold

If you want a modern engagement ring, white gold is a great option to consider and the perfect match for a lab diamond, as it brings out the stone’s brilliance. We love to use white gold for statement styles, like our halo engagement rings, including ‘Elowen’, ‘Cersei’, and ‘Marina’.

Rose Gold

You can make your fairytale moment even more magical with a rose gold engagement ring, creating a more feminine and ethereal look. It’s a great match for sapphires or oval-cut lab diamonds. Many of our best-selling celestial and fantasy engagement rings are created using rose gold to give them a soft, romantic look.

Choose Your Preferred Fairmined Gold When Buying a Sustainable Engagement Ring

It’s easy to feel overwhelmed when designing your ethical engagement ring, but we’re here to help you every step of the way. You can book a virtual consultation to explore the different types of fairmined gold that we offer to choose the right gold for your ring. Explore our collection of best-selling sustainable engagement rings or visit our blog for more in-depth guides on ethical fairmined gold.