Stone 101
Sunny yellow quartz, named after the French word for lemon.
Citrine is quartz in lemon, honey and amber tones. Here you'll find bead jewellery, generators, free-forms, geodes and cathedrals, with heat-treated pieces labelled.
The basics
Citrine is yellow to orange quartz. Natural citrine gets its colour from traces of iron and is usually a pale, soft yellow. It's honestly pretty rare.
Most citrine you'll see started out as amethyst. Heat turns the purple into strong gold and orange, often with a whiter base on clusters and geodes. It's still real quartz, just changed by heat.
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Straight talk
Honest answer: most citrine on the market is heat-treated amethyst. It's bright orange or gold, often with a white base. Natural citrine is paler and much less common. We label heat-treated pieces in the title. Dyed quartz and glass sold as citrine also exist; they tend to look too even and too bright.
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Good questions
Citrine is traditionally linked with warmth, optimism and good fortune. Shop owners have long kept one near the till, which is why it's nicknamed the merchant's stone.
Yes. Most citrine sold today is amethyst heated until it turns gold or orange. It's still quartz. Natural citrine is a paler yellow and rarer, and we mark heat-treated pieces in the title.
Yes. Citrine shares November with topaz as a modern birthstone, so it's a popular gift for November birthdays.
Citrine is usually linked with the solar plexus chakra, just above the belly button. Its sunny yellow colour is a big part of why.
