2.43 Ct. Semi-Black Opal from Australia

I present to you a treasure that feels like a secret rescue from the ocean of the night sky, a translucent Semi-Black Opal that sings in blue and green, a 2.43 carat cushion shape multi color opal born of Australian soil, offered with the care and trust of The Natural Gemstone Company. The gem measures 10.01 x 9.39 x 3.59 mm, and wears a tablet cut that lays its colors like a painted horizon. Its body carries the mystery of a darker ground, allowing flashes to leap forward with startling clarity and intensity. The clarity grade reads very slightly included, evaluated at eye level, which gives the stone a living texture rather than a clinical perfection, a whisper of natural origin that only deepens its romance. The polish is excellent, a glassy skin that catches light and returns it as poetry, and the enhancement status is none, no enhancement, a truth as pure as the rippling colors within. Imagine this gem as a heart held in a delicate setting, the cushion shape offering soft geometry, the tablet cut revealing planes of color like a memory laid open to the light.

As someone who has guided many seekers to the right stone, I will tell you how this opal breathes with an intense color intensity that moves from oceanic blues to emerald green, each shift a verse in a long love letter. In different lights the play of color rearranges itself, a private aurora that responds to the eye and to mood. The semi black nature of the opal deepens the chroma, and allows those luminous hues to pop with a drama that lighter bodies cannot achieve. Origin matters in stones, because the land shapes the language of the fire within, and this piece comes from Australia, where opal fields have long been the ancestry of remarkable color. No treatment has been applied, so what you hold is an honest dialogue between miner and maker, the result of geology and patience. The tablet cut favors a high, broad surface that invites a lover to trace the dance of color across its face, and the cushion outline lends a sense of vintage calm, a reminder of heirloom touches and quiet domestic grandeur.

Picture this opal as the centerpiece of a promise, resting against skin and turning every glance into a ceremony. I speak as both a steward of gemstones and as someone who loves the language they create, and I see this 2.43 carat Semi-Black Opal becoming a witness to anniversaries and whispered vows, a small planet that orbits the hand that holds it. The very slightly included clarity gives the impression of depth, like inked clouds beneath a surface lake, and those fine inclusions are not faults, they are fingerprints of the earth that birthed it. The excellent polish ensures each sweep of light becomes a revelation, each angle a new stanza in a luminous poem. If you seek a ring that reads as both modern and timeless, if you desire a gem that carries provenance, unquestioned polish, and an intense color intensity that can startle the eye into silence, then this piece is ready to be set and to begin its life with you.

Allow me to help you imagine settings, metal pairings, and design directions that will elevate this opal. A soft halo of petite diamonds will accent the darker ground and make the greens sing, a bezel of warm gold will cradle the cushion shape and escort its tablet face to the light, or a simple platinum bezel will let the oceanic hues remain the undisputed protagonist. I am available to discuss mounting options, to provide further photographs under different lights, and to advise on care so that the unenhanced beauty of this Australian opal remains pristine. As a representative of The Natural Gemstone Company I stand behind the origin, the measurements 10.01 x 9.39 x 3.59 mm, the tablet cut, the 2.43 carat weight, the clarity grade of very slightly included evaluated at eye level, the intense color intensity, the excellent polish, and the fact of no enhancement. If you wish to bring this piece into your life, I will guide the way with knowledge, with reverence for its story, and with gentle enthusiasm, because in the act of choosing a gem we are choosing a future that will sparkle with memory.