![]() ![]() The purple amethyst is the perfect stone for those who are romantics at heart. Amethyst can have a range of colors, including light pink to deep grape purple. It is a simple hexagonal crystal that makes up most violet quartz. Amethyst is a beautiful, precious stone that has been used for centuries as jewelry. It’s the birthstone for February and can range in color from a light, slightly pinkish violet to a deep grape purple. Most sellers are perfectly honest about this.Amethyst stone is a purple variety of quartz. If you can't see the stone in person, most of the time your best bet is to just ask the seller if they are selling natural or heat treated citrine. Of course, online this can be difficult to do, as photographs often don't give a true impression of appearance. The depth of colour in naturally formed citrine is starkly different to artificially heated citrine. Something that looks like coloured glass is more likely to come from a lab.Ĭomparison is the only fool-proof way to identify real citrine. ![]() Of course natural citrine would be more likely to have white spots, as the heat and pressure underground will often be uneven. This makes a lot of sense when you think about it. That's right - it's actually the opposite of what we've been told! ![]() This typically results in a very even coloured citrine without any white spots. Modern machines for artificially heating amethyst are capable of heating from every direction perfectly evenly. This myth came about because there was a period a few years ago where amethyst was being artificially heated in machines that only heated in one direction, which lead to a tell-tale colour banding from dark to white. Opaque white parts of a crystal are very common in citrine, whether it is naturally formed or artificially. MYTH: WHITE IN THE CRYSTAL IS EVIDENCE OF ARTIFICIAL HEATING MYTH: NATURAL CITRINE IS EVEN IN COLOUR I hope that by providing some solid examples we can rid the world of some misconceptions about citrine. We find that some customers prefer the lower price point of heated citrine, whilst others prefer the deeper colours of natural citrine. At BlueMoonPup, we handle both artificially heated citrine and natural citrine. The drama around citrine has created a difficult environment for both sellers and buyers, so I would like to set the record straight here. This makes it very difficult for customers to find real citrine and even makes it less likely that suppliers would try to stock real citrine, as they're often accused of selling fake citrine that has been misidentified by an amateur. People are very interested in owning naturally formed citrine over artificially heat treated amethyst, which is perfectly understandable, but the methods described online to distinguish between the two are often flawed, out of date or just wrong. There is a pushback against "fake" citrine, meaning amethyst that has been artificially heated to appear like citrine.Īmethyst and citrine are both forms of quartz and the process of amethyst becoming citrine is the same in nature, only the heating process is much more gradual, taking many years and resulting in a greater depth of colour. Citrine is a bit of a hot topic in the crystal community these days. ![]()
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