This darker deep honey-colored ice tea hue is known as Madeira citrine. This photo demos another common baked citrine formation, the druse. Also heat-treated citrine will be sort of crumbly & break apart easily since heating the stones at the temps necessary does seem to weaken the stability of the crystals. If it’s heat-treated citrine, the color will be most concentrated at the tips but white at the bottom (see photos below). It’s not always an easy task but let me give you a few pointers. Sometimes when people find out that much of the citrine on the market isn’t a Mama Earth Creation, they may go into a mini-panic, thinking that they’ve been duped or that their heat-treated citrine is totally useless.
So much so that over the years as I received many questions about it I’ve created a few videos to talk about the topic & show some examples. Lab-heated citrine seems to be a sore spot with many. It’s usually done in a dusty warehouse by the miners themselves no lab coats or anything.
Now, I’m saying “lab” in this post for ease & flow but often times the heating we’re talking about here isn’t done in a lab at all. Maybe the crystals have been molecularly bonded, irradiated, tumbled, cut, polished, or even heat-treated in a lab. Others may be drawn to the beauty of crystals that have been enhanced in some way but they may be totally unaware that they have been artificially altered. Some crystal peeps prefer their crystals to be all-natural as they were found in Mother Nature, in the raw. Right? But do you know if your citrine is real or fake citrine… Aren’t they? Well, what does fake citrine have to do with all of this?Īnd we all love citrine. Follow your intuition on your crystals.Crystals are remarkable and glorious gifts from Mother Earth. Heat-treated citrine isn’t a master crystal and does need cleansing however, if you feel called to it then don’t let anyone tell you it’s not a legit thing. Now let's be clear, some people think it’s not a vibe BUT personally I think that it’s beautiful it still has the abundance properties at a price more people can justify and it’s creating less waste in the crystal world. Heat-treated citrine was created to have similar sunshine/abundance properties but at a more affordable price point than natural citrine so it is more accessible for people.
It’s beautiful! Often they use a lower grade crystal that would usually be discarded of so it is re purposed and not wasted. 🧘♀️ So as you can imagine it’s popular in the crystal world.įast forward to heat-treated citrine - picture on the right, this is actually amethyst or clear quartz that has been heat treated to get that bright amazing orange. 🤍Īlso one of the only two crystals that do not need cleansing (ever) as it is said to never absorb negative energy. Mostly based around financial abundance and love. The healing properties for natural citrine is all about abundance and manifestation. It can sometimes have a bit of really light smoky quartz in it too! The key thing here is natural citrine is hard to come by so it is expensive. Natural citrine can range from this colour to a slightly more light browny/yellow colour and will often have rainbows through it. The first photo is natural citrine, it is a rare master crystal.
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