2.06 ct Orange Opal - Oval

At 2.06 carats, this opal from Mexico carries its orange color through an oval cut, measuring 10.4 x 8.3 x 4.4 mm.

Opal is hydrated silica that can break white light into a play of living color, a fire no two stones repeat; it holds up to a fifth of its weight in water, which is why it glows in a way nothing crystalline does. Mexico is the historic home of fire opal, mined there since long before the Spanish arrived. It is entirely untreated; no heat, no enhancement, the color exactly as the earth made it.

This is a center-stone-grade gemstone with a character of its own, chosen rather than settled for. Hand-selected and filmed by Caveman Gems in good light, shown as honestly as a screen allows.