• Product name: Natural Citrine
  • Shape: Oval
  • Color: Yellow Brown
  • Stone Size: 15.80x11.90 - 16.00x12.00 mm
  • Weight: 8.25 - 8.65 carats
  • Stone clarity: No visible inclusions
  • Treatment: Heat treated
  • Origin: Brazil

Citrine is a variety of quartz whose color ranges from pale yellow to brown due to a submicroscopic distribution of colloidal ferric hydroxide impurities. Natural citrines are rare; most commercial citrines are heat-treated amethysts or smoky quartzes. However, a heat-treated amethyst will have small lines in the crystal, as opposed to a natural citrine's cloudy or smoky appearance. It is almost impossible to differentiate between cut citrine and yellow topaz visually, but they differ in hardness. Brazil is the leading producer of citrine, with much of its production coming from the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The name is derived from the Latin word citrina which means "yellow" and is also the origin of the word "lemon". Sometimes citrine and amethyst can be found together in the same crystal, which is then referred to as ametrine.

Citrine has been referred to as the "merchant's stone" or "money stone", due to a superstition that it would bring prosperity.

Citrine was first appreciated as a golden-yellow gemstone in Greece between 300 and 150 BC, during the Hellenistic Age. 

CMU2F
4 Items

Data sheet

Stone type
Natural Citrine
Colour
Yellow Brown
Shape
Oval
Stone size mm
15.80x11.90 - 16.00x12.00
Weight carat
Stone Clarity
Eye clean
Treatment
Heated
Source
Brazil
Sale information
Price by piece
Supplier
Gold and Gems

20 other products in the same category:

Add same category products to weekly lineup
Product added to compare.