The cut on this stone is the checkerboard cut, which works better with the Mercury Mist Topazes than any other cut. This stone picks up and throws light even when theres virtually no light to be thrown. Cherry and I were at a dimly lit restaurant a while back (our once a week splurge...), and you should have seen this thing sparkle -- it was a sight to see!
A Mercury Mist Topaz is really an incredible stone. Like all of the Mystic Fire topazes, it starts out in life as a natural, mined stone, but is enhanced with a treatment of Titanium, which I explain at length elsewhere. Whats cool about this stone is the range of pastel iridescence. Icey blues, cool greens, and splashs of gold and silver, with the occasional pink.
A really cool color, theres nothing really like it.
This ring sits nicely on the finger, pretty filigree, center stone displayed well. This is a really nice, pretty ring.
