CitrineDruze 5160-L-I

5160-I Citrine Druze

$8.00

Get a piece of the Rock!

All measure between 1"-2"w x 1-1/2"-2"h and rest on a wood base 2-1/2" x 2".

A great conversation piece.

A druze is a coating of small but well terminated crystals covering a surface, usually the inner surface of a cavity.

Citrine is any quartz crystal or cluster that is yellow or orange in color. Although, often cut as a gemstone, citrine is actually somewhat rare in nature. Most citrines on the market have been heat treated. Specimens of low grade, inexpensive amethyst or smoky quartz are often cooked at high temperatures to produce the more profitable orange yellow citrine. Citrines whose colors have been produced by artificial means tend to have much more of an orange or reddish caste than those found in nature, which are usually a pale yellow. Much of the natural citrines may have started out as amethyst but heat from nearby magmatic bodies may have caused the change to citrine.