Natural Citrine

Presentation :

Names) :

• Citrine (variety of quartz).

Etymology:

• From French citrin=yellow in allusion to color.

Group, Family:

• Quartz family (Crystalline).

Color :

• Pale yellow, Yellow, Dark yellow, Yellow-orange, Rarely Orange to golden orange.

Chandelier:

• Glassy.

Crystal system:

• Trigonal 296: Pentamorph with Tridymite, Cristobalite, Coesite and Stishovite | Isostructural with Berlinite.

Chemical composition :

• SiO2, Coloring: Charge Transfer O2- => Fe3+ ; Colored Centers involving Al3+

Transparency:

• Transparent.

Density :

• Generally very constant around 2,650 to 2,651
• (NB: framing taken from 2.64 to 2.66 in case of inclusions)

Hardness :

• 7

Cleavage:

• Null

Breakage:

• Conchoidal, Scaly.

Line color:

White.

Shock resistance:

• Good.

Heat resistance:

• Bad (color change possible).

Additional presentation:

• Citrine essentially owes its citrus color to the tiny quantities of iron hydroxides it contains. It can sometimes be confused with yellow topaz because of their virtually identical hues. With a glassy shine, it has several varieties depending on its tones, ranging from lemon yellow to Madeira red, including golden yellow, brownish orange, golden brown and mandarin orange. The green tips at the heart of the lemon yellow citrine allow you to recognize this variety. For its part, yellow-gold citrine shines like the eponymous precious metal. Madeira citrine is recognized, for its part, by its orange-red tones, thus recalling the color of the famous Madeira wine. Orange and yellow hues combine in tangerine citrine. As for multi-colored citrine, it has a gradient from golden yellow to colorless.
• Belonging to the quartz family, citrine is a stone that is rarely found in its natural state.
• Its deposits, which are frequently those of amethysts, are mainly located in the United States, Spain, Uruguay and Madagascar. However, Brazil is the main producer of citrine with its significant deposits in the states of Rio Grande do Sul and Minas Gerais. Moreover, the most beautiful stones come from this country, to name only the famous faceted citrine of more than 2,000 carats which is exhibited in Washington, at the Smithsonian Institute.

Virtues and Properties:

Physical virtues:

• Soothes and tones the body and mind.
• Stimulates digestion, spleen, pancreas.
• Relieves constipation.
• Helps thyroid, general health, heart, kidneys, liver, muscles, strength, endocrine system, circulatory system, tissue regeneration, urinary system, immune system.
• Useful against fibromyalgia.
• Citrine is also good for eliminating toxins, and overcoming addictions.

Psychological, emotional and mental virtues:

• Helps you find a certain inner serenity.
• Promotes concentration.
• Stimulates intelligence.
• Stimulates good humor and creativity.
• Brings a vibration of success to all projects or exams.
• Stone of success par excellence (combined with green fluorite).
• Soothes family or collective disagreements.
• Develops a positive attitude and helps to see the future optimistically.

• Increases self-respect and self-confidence.
• Promotes appreciation of personal experiences.
• Helps overcome fears and phobias.
• By holding it in your hands, it brings joy, and eliminates melancholy and negativity.
• Reduces self-destructive tendencies.
• Eliminates nightmares and other sleep disorders.
• Promotes understanding, study, memory.
• Strengthens dynamism and motivation. It helps with decision-making and initiative.
• Strengthens individuality, and desensitizes to negative criticism.

Spiritual virtues:

• Keeps away negative influences, illness, nervousness, fatigue, anxiety and stress, in order to let more positive light into the place.
• Can even induce beneficial financial changes and bring prosperity.
• Transforms negative energies.
• Protects the aura.
• Balances and purifies the subtle body and harmonizes it with the physical body.
• Energy recharge.
• Activates the crown chakra and opens intuition.
• Energizing, purifying of the solar plexus chakra.

Environmental virtues:

• In our environment and our living space, citrine is a stone bringing wealth. This stone is placed in the corner of wealth in feng shui: the left corner furthest from the front door or the door of a room.
• Brings positive energy to all areas of life.
• Ideal in an office or for students, Citrine strengthens concentration and revitalizes the mind.

Chakra:

• Solar plexus