A Washington-based public benefit company called Regeneration is looking to clean up land and waterways in the Yukon, B.C. and Alaska – and make money doing it.

The project uses advanced technology to extract metals from waste material at old mine sites.

The company has partnered with Apple, Tiffany and Co., and Canadian jewelry company Mejuri, which have agreed to buy metals sourced from legacy mine sites and help fund restoration efforts.

The project began more than a decade ago with a focus on sites in the North, where decades of placer mining have left heaps of sediment and waste rock in and along streams and rivers.

CEO Stephen D'Esposito says jewelry and technology companies are aware of environmental issues in the mining industry and interested in being part of the solution.

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