This is a natural Sapphire recut of a native gem that was pretty bad in terms of geometry and color presentation. There was a chip at the girdle, lopsided geometry (check where that culet is), bad meets, bad polish, and abraded facet junctions from the typical mishandling often found with native stones:
Original was 8 x 6.3 x 3.5 at 1.7 carats weight. As is typical with very shallow stones, the re-cutting lost a great deal of weight. Finished dimensions are 5.25 mm diameter, 3.2 deep, and 0.52 carats.
However, the presentation is a great deal more eye-catching — even from several yards away:
The color is actually a great deal better than I could capture here – with a very saturated electric orangy-pink. The re-cutting also removed two included crystals and most of a veil that was originally toward the thin end.
I selected a 9-main Round Brilliant with un-stacked Mains – to work with the depth restriction while creating max scintillation and saturation retention. Check out this video: