Blue and Orange Adjustable Gemstone Necklace | Blue Opal and Orange Carnelian Necklace | Adjustable Silver Necklace

Dainty Blue Opal and Carnelian Necklace!

This simple yet beautiful sterling silver necklace shines with understated elegance. The pale Blue Opal contrasts with the fiery orange Carnelian for a fresh and breezy esthetic. Length is adjustable up to ~21 inches.

The Narrow Hem offers lifetime repairs on this product, you will just need to pay the cost to ship materials back to me.

Gemstones Used

Opal was highly prized among the Greeks and believed to possess the positive qualities of all other stones combined. In India, the Opal is legendary and regarded as a bringer of luck because it combines the virtues of all other stones. Found in hollowed spaces within hardened lava, this lovely gem is formed by hydro-thermal erosion and petrification representing beauty and resilience in the face of overwhelming external pressures. Blue Opal is a particular type of Opal marked by its lack of color display and milky color. Blue opal comes from Oregon and Idaho in the Owyhee region, as well as from Nevada around the Virgin Valley.

Carnelian dates back to the Bronze Age, circa 1800 BC, on the island of Crete. Romans believed it to be a stone of courage giving confidence and strength. Ancient Egyptians placed carnelian stones on mummies to assist the dead in their journey to the afterlife. Alchemists in the Middle Ages boiled carnelian with other stones to release their energies. Carnelian is a variety of chalcedony, a microcrystalline quartz. It is formed from the intergrowth of two silica minerals with differing crystal structures: quartz and moganite. Carnelian appears in a vibrant range of fire-orange reds to brown-reds The reddish tints in the translucent stone are due to one of its ingredients: iron oxide. Carnelian is most commonly found in India, Brazil, Siberia and Germany.