3.67 ct Green Peridot - Emerald Cut

At 3.67 carats, this peridot from Afghanistan carries its green color through an emerald cut, measuring 10 x 8 mm.

Peridot is the gem form of olivine, colored green by the iron in its own structure, one of the few gems that occurs in a single color. Afghanistan's mountains hold some of the oldest worked gem deposits on earth, mined since antiquity. It is wholly untreated, its color finished by geology rather than by any furnace or enhancement.

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.