6.44 ct Brown Opal - Freeform

This 6.44-carat opal is shaped as a freeform measuring 17 x 11.7 x 7.7 mm, with a brown body color, sourced from Ethiopia.

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.

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.