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Citrine
Citrine is the transparent, pale yellow to brownish orange variety of quartz.
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Fall for Autumn Gems
Nature gives us a brilliant palette of color-changing leaves and a spectacular kaleidoscope of colorful sunsets during the fall season.
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Gem Virtuosos: The Drehers and Their Extraordinary Carvings
A look at the artistic heritage of the Drehers, an influential family of gem carvers in Idar-Oberstein, Germany.
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Multi-Color-Zoned Quartz from Brazil
A Brazilian quartz with unusual color zoning caused by variable iron content is examined.
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Designer’s Inventive, ‘Outrageous’ Jewelry Wins Industry Awards
Emerging artist Trishala Ashok – who has won multiple design awards – looks beyond the mundane and minutiae of daily life to create her jewelry.
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The Natural Formation and Occurrence of Green Quartz
How amethyst under certain conditions may turn green rather than the expected citrine-yellow.
Read MoreArtificially Induced Color in Amethyst-Citrine Quartz
A new and rather unusual gem material and possible treatments are discussed.
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Citrine History and Lore
Natural citrine is rare, and today most citrine quartz is the result of heat treatment of amethyst quartz. Even so, gems from the Victorian era have surfaced, and it’s not hard to imagine that citrine was treasured even in earlier times.
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