GRADING REPORT RYL193
- Identification: Natural Unheated & Untreated Labradorite
- Carat: 1.93
- Shape: Round Brilliant
- Measures: 8.03-8.33x6.14 (millimeter)
- Color Grade: Good
- Tone: Light 33
- Color Zoning: None
- Clarity: Free of Inclusions
- Cutting Grade: Excellent (precision cut)
> Brilliancy: 90%
> Depth: 74%
- Origin: Ohio, USA
- Treatment: None
Certificate No: IGI 380995076
Overall Grade: Very Good
Comment: Normally connected to Oregon, as the 'Sunstone', or as opaque gem with endlessly colorful surface tricks, this 8mm round comes from the other side of the continent, Ohio, where, transparent, pale crystals without optical tricks such as this 1.93 are sometimes found. No iridescence or labradorescence tricks but a pale mix of metallic green and, I've been fighting here, also metallic yellow. Can yellow be metallic? In fact, the whole gem looks more like a metal than a stone. Of course, metal does not sparkle, which the gem does in most unpredictable lively ways. From a perfectly cut clean 8mm round gem you can expect a good deal of luster, but this is very different. I will wait for inspiration to describe the metal gleam in a transparent gem. That aside, 3*Nos: No window, no treatments and no inclusions, under the lens, though under magnification you get a first idea what causes the metallic character, it's not silk or haze; probably an unnamed cousin of its wildly colorful, optical trick-master living on the other coast. Let us set such a delicate gem with our own damage-insurance. If worn for special occasions only, an elegant prong-design could show-off its luster breaking out even horizontally, for protection we need a bezel or a pendant.
