2.74 ct Gray Opal - Cushion

At 2.74 carats, this opal from Ethiopia carries its gray color through a cushion cut, measuring 11.1 x 10.5 x 4.7 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. Ethiopia is one of the newest names on the gem map, now a leading source of bright opal as well as other species. It is entirely untreated; no heat, no enhancement, the color exactly as the earth made it.

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.