29/08/2026
Can you tell the difference?
Natural Citrine and Heat-Treated Amethyst can look surprisingly similar, but their stories are very different.
Natural Citrine gets its colour naturally through geological processes, while Heat-Treated Amethyst started life as Amethyst before heat changed its colour.
And here's the important part: heat-treated doesn't mean fake. It means the quartz has been treated.
But there's more to the Citrine story than we can fit into one little carousel.
From natural Citrine and Amethyst to Smokey Quartz, Ametrine and how these materials can be distinguished, I've gone much deeper in the Crystal Learning Library.
🌻 Read the full blog: Natural Citrine vs Heat-Treated Amethyst
Beautiful crystals. Real stories. Curious minds.