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citrine

It is a yellow variety of quartz. Its name comes from the Latin “citrus”, this gem owes its name to its lemon yellow color due to its iron content but the name was male until the seventeenth century (citrine quartz). The natural citrines, of a very pure and bright yellow, are actually quite rare, most of them being amethyst or smoky quartz, heated, but then their color turns more towards the brown-red.
The ametrine is a bicolor variety of quartz , also called bolivianite or trystine for half amethyst and half citrine. Its name reminds the amethyst and citrine.
The Ayoreos Indians living in the El Chaco region, east of Bolivia, about thirty kilometers from Brazil, discovered it entangled in tree roots. They exchanged it for food with the Spanish invaders.



CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS

SiO2

silicon dioxide, silica



PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS

Main color

yellow

Other colors

brown, orange, purple

due to iron: from light yellow to golden brown. Ametrine is of two colors: yellow and purple

Color of streak

white

Luster

vitreous

Hardness

7.0 to 0.0

Density

2.63 to 2.65

Cleavage

none

Fracture

conchoidal, splintery



OPTICAL PROPERTIES

Transparency

transparent

Refractive index

1.543 - 1.554

Double refraction

0.009

weak uniaxial positive

visible double refraction

No

Dispersion

0.013(0.008)

Pleochroism

weak

Number of colors

2

yellow to light yellow. Heated amethysts become yellow and have no pleochroism.

Fluorescence

none



CRYSTALS PROPERTIES

6-sided pseudo-hexagonal prisms ending in 6 sides pyramid

crystals system

trigonal



OTHER INFORMATIONS

Astrological sign

Leo, Pisces, Sagittarius, Scorpio

Month

november

Chinese astrological sign

Rooster

Exploited
sites

Deposits of citrine are found in Brazil (Bahia, Minas Gerais), Madagascar, United States, Argentina, Burma, Namibia, Russia, Scotland and Spain.A The ametrine comes mainly from Bolivia where it has to was first exploited in an illegal manner by the army and adventurers who have exhausted the surface layers. It is, since 1990, exploited by a private company, in shafts and tunnels of several tens of meters deep. They are also found in Brazil and Uruguay.

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