A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Citrine, a variety of quartz, faceted gemstone |
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| Description | Citrine (SiO2) is any quartz crystal or cluster that is yellow or orange in color. Much of the natural citrines may have started out as amethyst (a purple variety of quartz) but heat from nearby magmatic bodies may have caused the change to citrine. |
| Location | Brazil |
| Photographer | Darla Sondrol. 2001-11-09. |
| Key words | citrine, quartz, Brazil |
| Tech details | 32 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 1785 |
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