Citrine - 20g to 30g Tumbled Stone (Selected)

A crystal tumbled stone gemstone selected specially for your order.

Size approximately  3.5 to 4.5 cm, 
weight varies 20g to 30g
Heat Treated

Heat Treated Citrine:

The more available variety of Citrine found on the market is the characteristic lemon-yellow to orange-yellow stones created by heating Amethyst crystals to a high temperature. Crystals and minerals are use to high temperature within the Earth, so this heating does not damage them. Though in many ways these stones should be considered a different mineral, in regards to their healing and metaphysical properties. 

Some people will refer to Heat Treated Citrine as ‘Common Citrine’ not the most flattering of names and I would say a calling it ‘Warm Citrine’ would suit it better it my opinion, as it is said this type of Citrine may bring a light to dark thoughts and bring an optimism, playfulness and happiness into one’s energy system. To me this is bringing a warmth and a comfort to ones self. It is considered too enable one to be more assertive and outgoing and it may also give a ‘second wind’ to face difficult situations.

Citrine is a silicon dioxide mineral, a member of the Quartz group, its crystal system is trigonal and it’s yellow pigmentation is derived from iron.

It varies in shade from very pale yellow to a deep amber, nearly orange, with some specimens exhibiting brownish tinges.

The name Citrine comes from the French word citron, meaning lemon. Citrine was used as a gem in Greece and Rome through the first and second centuries A.D.

Much of the commercial Citrine on the market is heat-treated Amethyst. In general, the deep amber and orangish shades are heat treated. Natural Citrine's are mostly a pale yellow colour. Deposit of natural Citrine have been found in Brazil, Africa, Madagascar, Spain, Russia, France, Scotland and the USA.

 

Here at London Fossils Crystals I sell a wide range of Tumble Stones  

Tumble stones are so called because a number of stones of similar sizes are placed in a barrel which is rotated (tumbled) at a speed and after a time between 3 - 5 weeks the stones are polished from rough to smooth. 

(The Tumble stones we sell, have not been tumbled by ourselves)