2.35 ct Colorless Opal - Pear

At 2.35 carats, this opal from Ethiopia carries its colorless face through a pear cut, measuring 18.3 x 8.2 x 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. It carries no treatment of any kind, so the color you see is the color that came out of the ground.

A natural opal small enough to wear every day and real enough to mean it, not a lab stone and not glass. Hand-selected and filmed by Caveman Gems in good light, shown as honestly as a screen allows.