November Birthstone - Citrine

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Citrine is the modern November birthstone, the Planetary stone for Virgo, and the accepted gem for the 13th and 17th wedding anniversaries. See other November birth stones: Traditional, Contemporary, Mystical, Ancient, Zodiac and Star signs.

Citrine is a variety of quartz ranging in colors of yellow, yellow-brown, orange, dark orange-brown, reddish-brown. Citrine crystals can form together with amethyst or smoky quartz to form ametrine a bi-colored quartz.

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Natural citrine is a pale yellow to orange, and is much lighter than the heat-treated material, which is dark orange-brown to reddish-brown. Most citrine on the market today is actually heat-treated amethyst because natural citrine is found only in large quartz deposits in small amounts. All heat-treated material has a red tint, whereas the natural specimens do not.

In many amethyst deposits, the amethyst has been partially or fully changed to a darker brown citrine due to naturally occurring high temperatures, thereby changing the amethyst into natural citrine.

Citrine is a 7.0 on the Mohs scale.

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