Citrine, Quartz, Natural, Faceted, Hexagon Coin, One 10mm Strand

Citrine, Quartz, Faceted, Hexagon Coin, One 10mm Strand

This price is for one strand 15 to 16 inches

Hexagon Coin strands have about 30 pieces

Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silicon and oxygen atoms. Quartz is the second most abundant mineral in Earth's continental crust, behind feldspar.

Citrine is a transparent, yellow variety of Quartz, ranging in color from pale to golden yellow, honey or almost brown, and may contain rainbow or sparkle inclusions. Naturally, it takes its color from the traces of iron in the quartz and the heat from nearby magmatic bodies. The only difference between Citrine and Lemon Quartz is in the saturation and tone of their color. Many gem dealers do not even separate the two and use the name Citrine for all Yellow or Lemon Quartz. The name comes from the French word citron, meaning lemon

Natural yellow Citrine is rare and often cut as gemstones, not beads. What is left is mostly are a pale yellow. Much of the natural Citrine may have started out as Amethyst but heat from nearby magmatic bodies may have caused the change to Citrine. Most Citrine on the market is heat-treated Amethyst or Smoky Quartz.

From the earliest of times, Citrine was called the "sun stone" and the gemstone was thought capable of holding sunlight. Citrine comes from Brazil, Madagascar, Russia, Spain, France, and Scotland. This stone is also found in Colorado.

Hardness 7

The source of these beads is Brazil and they are cut, drilled and polished in China.

This is a natural stone that has had no treatment other than cutting, drilling, and polishing.