Tag Archives: citrine

Baked amethyst vs. real citrine (still no pics, yet)

21 December 2007 – 11:04 am

A new visitor (hi!) asked about how to tell the difference between the baked citrine (heat-treated amethyst), and genuine citrine. I’ll post photos as soon as I can, but in the meantime I think I am familiar enough with them now that I can describe it.

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More on citrine, the one where I am a liar

20 December 2007 – 8:51 am

When I said in an older post that I had never handled natural citrine… that turns out not to have been, um, entirely accurate. Since I didn’t know what citrine was, I had a few in my keeping and didn’t know it. In fact, one of them is a chipped, included point that [...]

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All yer citrine is amethyst

20 June 2007 – 4:06 pm

I’ve had a renewed interest in stones and crystals lately – not that I ever stopped liking them, but I hadn’t done a lot of reading about them in a while.

Today’s revelation: more of them are man-made or altered than most merchants let on. I was aware that some were. For example, aqua [...]

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