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  Citrine Necklaces, Earrings & Gemstone Bead Bracelets

  Citrine necklaces and earrings with citrine bracelets including citrine bead and citrine crystal pendants matching quartz in yellow and various colours.

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  Bright Yellow Citrine Gemstone Fashion

  Citrine gemstone as a rare variety of quartz projects golden yellow light and is a sister crystal of amethyst, read about this natural gemstone in our gemstone blog.

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  Quartz Jewelry Beautiful Family

  Quartz is a diverse gemstone family with many members that add distinctive colour and recognisable traits to fashionable quartz jewelry necklaces and bracelets

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Citrine Necklaces, Earrings & Gemstone Bead Bracelets

Citrine is a quartz with naturally light yellow tone tending to crystal translucency that gifts design bright summer vibe filled with lively energy

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Citrine yellow and warm like the sun, this radiant gemstone and naturally rare variety of quartz is a sister crystal to amethyst and was prized by ancient European peoples as a ward and healing stone.

With colours ranging from light yellow to dark golden brown, citrine derives it’s colour from traces of iron within the crystal in the same way as amethyst does, in fact within the precious stone “ametrine” both citrine and amethyst are found together in the same crystal.

Often confused with yellow gemstones such as apatite and beryl, citrine with it’s yellow topaz like colour is also trade named as “Rio Grande Topaz” after one of the more famous places it is found.

Citrine Gemstone Distribution

Citrine is a species of quartz – a mineral of silicon and oxygen that is found widely in nature both upon the surface of and deep within the Earth.

As a hardy crystal with a hardness of 7 on the moh’s scale, quartz is very resistant to weathering and will remain long after the parent rock which it formed within has eroded away with the passage of time.

Quartz with it’s evident resistant to weathering will slowly accumulate in streams, rivers, glaciers and other places that gradually wash and wear away other rocks, leaving deposits of this semi precious stone visibly exposed and contrasted well against other rock.

Tiny crystals of quartz are widely present on beaches around the world as the greatest constituent of sand, fine white sandy beaches are indicative a process of weathering that has taken place over millions of years, leaving behind these small fine crystals.

Below the Earth quartz is found in rock such as granite and other igneous rocks that have slowly crystallised from subterranean flows of magma.

Other quartz containing rocks include sedimentary rocks such as sandstones where quartz crystals have accumulated on the surface over time, and metamorphic rocks including quartzite – where sedimentary rocks have been compressed, heated and transformed into new forms.

Formation of Citrine Gemstone

Under the presence of heat and time trapped minerals of quartz will slowly grow into crystals wedged between fissures in rocks, filling the hollows of geodes and even growing outwards into rock cavities and caves.

Quartz grows into two types of crystal that are called macro and micro or “crypto” crystalline crystals, micro crystalline quartz is comprised of countless small faceted crystals that are invisible or “cryptic” to the unaided eye and include well known chalcedony.

Macro crystalline quartz varieties include well known amethyst, citrine, smoky quartz, rose quartz and rutilated quartzes among many many others, are all quartz family crystals distinguished by numerous different inclusions that include previous crystal impressions, mineral rutile inclusions, gas bubbles, metal inclusions and many others.

See our quartz gemstone article for more about the family of quartz.

Amethyst and citrine gemstone are quartz crystals whose crystal structure is interspersed with iron atoms that were part of the environment that the crystal formed within and were slowly incorporated into the crystal as it grew.

The presence of iron in the otherwise near transparent crystal changes how light is transmitted through the gemstone, for example amethyst will slightly absorb visible light tending towards red, with the opposite purple showing through.

In citrine gemstone the interaction of the iron elements with the surrounding crystal exists in a slightly different state, shifting the absorption of light towards blue leaving a yellow tint.

The small difference between amethyst and citrine is so slight that in nature the two crystals can grow together into a single crystal called an “ametrine” that shows both purple and yellow colouring, while in the market of gemstones “poor quality” amethyst that displays little purple colour is frequently heated to change the colour.

In nature the difference between citrine gemstone and amethyst is often a result of the temperature at which it formed, our jewellery uses natural unheated citrine that shows only slight yellow colouring as opposed to the much stronger yellow of heated citrine.

Where is Citrine Found?

Natural citrine crystal is rare when compared to other quartz crystals with the majority of market citrine being heat treated amethyst.

Natural citrine shows common light yellow colour to less frequently seen golden yellow in “Madeira Citrine” and also includes dark gold brown colours.

Heat treated citrines will often have a red tint and “citrine” quartzes that display dazzling lemon yellow colour are irradiated, heat-treated amethyst can also display inclusions of small lines in the crystal.

The most sought after citrine comes from Madeira and shows strong golden yellow colours, with no visible eye inclusions and no variation of colour across the crystal that is more typical in other citrine.

Citrine is found in a few select places around the world with the most popular coming from Brazil’s “Rio Grande do Sul” area though many heat treated Brazilian amethysts are also sold as natural citrine.

In Brazil it is not uncommon to heat large quartz crystal finds, including geodes of amethyst to become more valuable citrine yellow, producing large clusters of crystal that is more valuable with the sought after yellow colour.

It is considered best to store citrine in a place away from sunlight and strong heat, as both can lead to the gemstone’s yellow colour fading over time.

Citrine Gemstone Culture and History

Citrine has a strong connection to the ancient Celtic people of Western Europe who incorporated it into pendant jewelry that would shield the wearer from both evil thoughts of others and poisons and sickness.

In metaphysical writings citrine is considered to be linked to the sun, and is a stone that is described as giving a boost to energy, as well as the more ancient uses of a ward and health giving stone, other sources describe citrine as a “money stone” and bringer of prosperity.

During the era of ancient Greece citrine was fashioned into large crystal motifs and shaped into figurines, though it was not considered especially valuable – perhaps due to the rarity of stones of good quality compared to more prevalent smoky and milky “included” varieties.

Citrine has a connection to healing and health with the Scottish people believing the stone can protect from the bite of the poisonous local “adder” snake and historically was considered to protect from plague.

Victorian era citrine was very popular and included brooches of large carat crystals set in gold and silver surrounds, citrine jewelry of the era was influenced by the production of Citrine from the “Cairngorm” area in Scotland which continues to produce prized quartzes to this day.

Citrine Fashion

Citrine fashion ranges from large carat designer gemstones that have been carved into beautiful shapes to more common earrings and rings, often matched to gold the natural yellow gemstone colour shines with a warm attractive energy.

Citrine as well as topaz and amber are some of the “go to” gemstones for lovers of natural yellow colours and are frequently cut into faceted gemstones that maximise reflected light and matched to gold and silver.

Our natural citrine jewelry take the light straw yellow colouring of this beautiful gemstone to form designs carrying a lightness and brevity that project life and energy while lifting the colour depth of clothing.

Citrine is an elegant gemstone and is well matched with pink quartzes and the light white jelly agate shown in our beautiful pink crystal necklace piece.

This beautiful citrine necklace uses a pink thread laced through supporting citrine bead whose soft yellow light adds levity of tone to the whole piece.

Matched to seldom seen purple phantom quartz the light purple and citrine yellow of our flower pendant bracelet support each other with fresh spring colour tones and a light airy feeling.

In our design ranges the natural beauty of gemstones is shown with selections of gemstones chosen to support each other in colour and lightness, threaded together in designs that carry an evident emotional feeling and new colourful life concept.

Citrine belongs to our lighter range of necklaces and bracelets, it’s light spring colour is well matched to the silver flower brocades and floral themes of the pieces shown above.

More of our citrine featuring bracelets and necklaces can be seen in our collection page on our website here, the pale yellow colouring of natural citrine is suited to floral jewelry necklaces and floral jewelry bracelets – belonging to those concepts in which a floral blossom feeling is very evident.

Our amethyst gemstone necklace and bracelet page features the sister gemstone of citrine.

Citrine is a beautiful light gemstone and a rarely seen variety of quartz that when incorporated into bead jewelry design gives a sunny lightness to clothing, lifting the presence of elegant apparel and perhaps more importantly brightening the day of not only the wearer but the people around them who catch sight of this lovely warm radiant gemstone.

Notably more weathering resistant than surrounding parent rock, the passing of time served to expose this beautiful crystal to early cultures when clearly juxtaposing itself in natural seams exposed against surrounding layered rock, and gave immediate spiritual and material benefits to those societies who discovered it.

Slighter hardier than steel on the Mohr scale quartz was highly valued in ancient culture as hand knapped axes with it’s prized use in this lithic stone technology being one of the longest continuous uses of technology to date.

A crystal that projects clean purity when compared to the rock in which it is often discovered many historical spiritual benefits are to be found recorded hand in hand.

The bible records the gemstone family member amethyst as conferring spiritual protection adorned to the breast plates of high priests, while Christian knights carried crystals of quartz for healing powers, and great thinkers such as Leonardo Da Vinci referred to it as bestowing keenness of thought.

Used extensively by the Celtic people of ancient Western Europe from the Alps to Ireland and Scotland – where large natural deposits are found – quartz was fashioned into myriad crystal figurines which are still to be found in these peoples ancient crypts, and was used in contemporary bead necklaces and bracelets which were traded widely.

Decorating headdresses and crowns larger quartz crystals were used by Egyptian royalty to emphasise social status, while shaman tribal soothsayers gained insights into the spiritual planes from early natural crystals, which were later machined into crystal balls that proved popular for divining in the early twentieth century.

Our own quartz jewelry design uses many quartz crystal family members for their contributions to rich and interesting design, which with varied colouring, myriad lustres of sparkling light and deep inclusions of precious minerals make a fantastic art palette for a modern fashion designer.

Quartz as a mineral is found widely in nature and is an important element of constitution for many rocks such as granite, while after being weathered down though the passing of ages it is found widely distributed as sand particles on beaches around the world.

Quartz is often quarried from deep rock veins, where layers between sedimentary rocks have allowed spaces for the crystals to slowly grow into, and provide for rich sources of surrounding mineral to crystallise and grow from.

Sometimes smaller localised pockets of quartz crystals grow from minerals of other rocks deep below the ground which can be discovered filling large natural crystal clusters.

Natural crystal geodes are formed when hot lava traps gas bubbles which then form into cavities that allow minerals of surrounding material to gradually grow into.

Growing in subterranean high temperature silica rich environments the quartz minerals crystallizes into a variety of well known rock crystals such as citrine and amethyst.

Quartz crystals have two primary types of which the larger macro crystal type is found in many of our quartz jewelry collections and whose crystal structure can be discerned by eye.

This type includes the classic rock crystal white quartz, which as a close to transparent crystal reflects ample light and contrasts well against black and darker opaque hue design.

Ancient Egyptian necklaces and bracelets featured natural quartz crystals as centrepieces of designs that included supporting beads of golden ceramics and precious stones such as emerald.

Possessing greater design depth are the rutilated quartz varieties, these quartz crystals have grown together with rutile inclusions of other minerals and metals that grow naturally within the crystal.

In rutilated quartzes colourful metals such as copper or silver and minerals such as green chlorite are subsumed by a growing quartz crystal or slowly amalgamate together adding beautiful colouring and depth to designs which make use of them.

In our own designs rutile quartzes balance stronger colours in amethyst and other gemstones with the lighter crystals of quartz when used as supporting beads.

Rutile quartzes are an important part of our designer jewelry for their versatility which when balanced with stronger colours acts as a medium to project concepts that make use of many different gemstone types.

Well known quartz jewelry family member amethyst obtains her famous purple colour from the inclusion of scattered iron elements which in deep purple Siberian amethyst is famously prized.

Amethyst colours vary greatly across the world with deep purple to barely visible purple, scattered light and dark colouring and stable colours all being found.

Siberian amethyst as well as other varieties of this quartz family member can be read about in our blog article here.

Amethyst is widely found in Brazil and in many places grows in conjunction with the lighter coloured citrine, even so far as forming a twinned crystal that has traits of both parent crystals that is known as ametrine.

Yellow quartz is called citrine and shines with a range of bright yellow tones from golden citrine’s golden hues to Madeira citrine brown shades and yellow citrine’s lemon yellow colouring.

Quartz family members such as these examples cover many hundreds of other naturally formed crystals where the crystal form is readily apparent to the eye.

Where quartz crystals are not readily apparent to the eye they are termed cryptocrystalline quartz – so called as the crystals are cryptic, these quartz crystals include agate and chalcedony varieties which are used in many of our necklace designs.

Made up of millions of tiny crystals these gemstones posses some of the translucency and reflectivity of macro quartz crystals but with unique properties that come from their makeup, such as deeper colouring and fantastic scattering of reflected light.

Chalcedony is one of this type of quartz with it’s translucent milky colour coming from reflections of light from the tiny micro crystal quartzes.

Though not as transparent to light as macro crystal quartz, it’s hardness and resilience to cutting in common with other microcrystalline quartzes make for easier shaping of pendants and other pieces which are subsequently beautifully shaped.

Our own quartz jewelry includes peace, ring and heart pendants made of milky white chalcedony which impart purity to design and act to balance stronger opaque supporting bead colours while possessing some of the same reflective lightness that is found in other crystal quartzes.

The special type of chalcedony shown in the pendant necklace photo above is a petrified chalcedony.

Forming over many hundreds of millions of years tiny quartz crystals grow into and very slowly replace organic matter leaving visible vestiges of their original fragile forms.

The quartz jewelry piece above shows the forms of tiny marine plants which have left delicate light impressions in the chalcedony matrix, a memory from a warm aquatic world that covered the Earth in a time far removed from our present age.

Belonging to a special type of chalcedony these pieces have stronger natural connections being intimately connected to the living world.

In our quartz jewelry designs petrified chalcedony is often used in forest concepts which project feelings of woodland glades, or in aquatic ocean concepts with projections of aquatic nature and blue ocean tones.

An opaque variety of a micro crystalline quartz is the solid coloured jasper, a form of chalcedony that though lacking translucency shows more strong distinctive colours, though this gemstone is not found in our collections at time of writing.

Agate is a banded chalcedony that is much more translucent to light and can show striking colour bands and landscape impressions where chalcedony is typically comprised of more opaque white colouring.

One colourful and translucent agate variety is banded agate whose bands of colour, though sometimes less colourful than other gemstones, display as painted landscapes and in “moss” agate abound with natural fern like structures.

Our family of quartz jewelry uses the natural lightness and quartz crystal transmission of light as an aid to designs that add levity to natural gemstone and balance stronger natural colours into more balanced designs.

In the above picture an excellent example of cherry blossom agate shows some translucency while with beautiful natural patterning radiates purity while lifting the blue colouring of the supporting beads and adding a deftness of light to the necklace.

Quartz and it’s myriad family members have been friends of jewelry lovers and designers across millennia and enriches our own in house jewelry design in a unique way to our collected necklaces and bracelets.

YAN fashion quartz jewelry styles use quartz as both central and supporting aspects of design depending on the amount of colour and the intended use of the jewelry.

Our designer quartz jewelry is designed with a principal idea and the use of quartz crystals in the design act as an aid to projection of this central concept focus.

With so many types of quartz to choose from with differing colour and lustre of light quartz can be selected as both a central bead that acts as the focus, or as a lighter supporting bead to balance or help project an idea.

In quartz jewelry designs that use many different types of gemstone quartzes can balance harmoniously with crystals such as lighter green prehnite crystals or translucent white moonstone which allows selections of different semi precious stones to act together to carry forward a design concept.

Lighter quartz crystals such as white quartz are also used frequently in our black obsidian bead necklaces and bracelets where their natural light radiance serves to lift darker obsidian blacks.

Even in our gothic range of jewelry that is rich in beautiful black tone, the presence of crystal beads of quartz add a lightness to design and brings an unmistakable natural levity such as in the photo of a bracelet above.

In some of our designs both crypto and crystal quartzes are used together resulting in light radiant designs such as our pixie princess necklaces which are deft and nimble in tone.

I n the necklace above a pendant of agate with a high degree of translucency allows matching to lighter macro crystal phantom quartz beads whose faint vestiges of precursor crystals balance well with the detail in the pendant.

Natural necklaces such as rose woods and wing woods – though not gemstone in nature, can also balance with crypto crystalline agates and chalcedonies.

The following photo shows floral impressions from the cherry blossom agate match well to rose wood beads whose own surface projects natural energy further encouraged with bouquets of silver roses and floral agate supporting beads.

Quartz is to the crystal world as a flower is to the world of plants, at once ubiquitous and widespread in nature though both precious and beautiful no matter where it is found.

Incorporated into quartz jewelry design this crystal of every colour and variety lends itself to harmonising with almost every conceivable type of gemstone acting as a go between of light and dark tone and giver of levity to darker lustres.

As a central bead quartz – as it has done for hundreds of thousands of years, stands out with purity of natural energy projecting light from itself, while selflessly balancing with a range of different jewelry design.

The fantastic family of quartz crystals are an artists treasure trove of colour and light that imbue each piece of jewelry with beauty and selfless energy.

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