3.67 Ct Solid Smoked Welo opal with fire – Brilliant colours AAA - 11.00mm Colour:Multicolour clean clarity

clean clarity

Hardness: 8

• Carat Weight: 3

Quality Grade – J

Going beyond the single carat

3.67 Ct Solid Smoked Welo opal with fire – Brilliant colours AAA - 11.00mm Colour:Multicolour clean clarityWe call this one the little ugly duckling that is really a swan. Its unusual shape is not for everyone but once bezel set in a white gold ring it would be stunning. In a cave in Kenya, Louis Leakey, the famous anthropologist, uncovered the earliest known opal artifacts. Dating back to about 4000 B. C., they most likely came from Ethiopia. Historically, opal discoveries and mining progressed similarly to the ways diamond, emerald, ruby and sapphire