SEDAGEMS

CITRINE

This is a  well facated natural citrine stone.

Grade A colour

Heated to improve colour

Cut oval-CHECKERBOARD

High Luster

Grading VVS

Total weight 17.75  cts app

Size 20x16x11  mm

Citrine is any quartz crystal or cluster that is yellow or orange in color. Although often cut as a gemstone, citrine is actually somewhat rare in nature. Most citrines on the market have been heat treated. Specimens of low grade, inexpensive amethyst are often cooked at high temperatures to produce the more profitable orange yellow citrine. Citrines whose colors have been produced by artificial means tend to have much more of an orange or reddish caste than those found in nature, which are usually a pale yellow. Much of the natural citrine may have started out as amethyst but heat from nearby magmatic bodies may have caused the change to citrine.