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Citrine

A yellow to yellow-orange or yellow-green variety of quartz. Natural citrine is very rare. Large quantities of amethyst, usually of lesser quality, are heated to turn it yellow or orange and sold as ‘citrine’.

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Citrine — specimen 0568
Citrine — specimen 0568, photo © NMNHS

Material from ‘Repository’

18 specimens: 0065 — 0.80 ct, Brazil; 0569 — 2.40 ct, Brazil; 0413 — 0.82 ct, Brazil; 0004 — 5.89 ct, Brazil; 0367 — 0.56 ct, Brazil; 0609 — 1.13 ct, Brazil; 0184 — 1.32 ct, no locality data; 0244 — 1.27 ct, no locality data; 0568 — 8.50 ct, Brazil; 0375 — 1.06 ct, Tanzania; 0470 — 0.65 ct, Tanzania; 0712 — 4.80 ct, Tanzania; 0241 — 4.16 ct, Brazil; 0116 — 4.96 ct, Brazil; 0710 — 0.71 ct, Brazil; 0114 — 11.11 ct, Brazil; 0074 — 16.14 ct, Brazil; 0207 — 5.55 ct, Brazil.


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