Podcast 011: What you need to know about citrine. In conversation with Henk Rijneveld
The podcast is in Dutch, but available via YouTube with English subtitles, so you can listen in – even if your Dutch is not perfect.…
Tag: citrine
Madeira ‘citrine’
Commercial name for a heat-treated amethyst (HTA) with a yellow-orange to orange-brown color. The name is derived from a Portuguese wine made in the Madeira…
Baked Amethyst / Heat-Treated Amethyst (HTA)
Designation for heated amethyst that turns yellow-brown as a result and often has to pass for citrine. Because real (untreated) citrine is a rare and…
Lemon Quartz
Commercial name sometimes used for citrine, but usually refers to a popular light yellow/green variety of irradiated and heated smoky quartz from Brazil or quartz…
Citrine
Mineralogical name for a yellow-brown or yellow-green variety of quartz. The cause of the color is still under debate. Most “true” citrine gets its yellow…
Remarkable quartz with citrine color from Morocco
For several years, remarkable shaped quartz crystals have been popping up on the market from Morocco with a distinctive citrine color, ranging from yellow-brown to…
Bahia ‘citrine’
Commercial name for a heated amethyst (also called heat-treated amethyst or HTA) with a yellow-orange to orange-brown color. Because genuine (untreated) citrine is a rare…
Ametrine
An accepted name for a yellow-purple variety of quartz, the name being derived from the quartz varieties amethyst and citrine. According to the World Jewellery…
