Citrine Jewelry
Genuine Citrine Rings, Bracelets, & Citrine Necklaces

Genuine citrine jewelry items are the traditional birthstone jewelry gift for November birthdays. The astrological signs of citrine are Gemini, Aries, Libra and Leo.

Citrine has been used as gemstones and other ornamental objects for thousands of years. In most early references it was often confused with topaz. The name citrine comes from the old French word citrin which means yellow. There has been much confusion between citrine and topaz, and citrine has previously been known as topaz, topaz-quartz, madeira topaz, Spanish topaz and Saxon Topaz, and other names! To learn more about natural citrine, see the citrine information page.

Take the handcrafted citrine jewelry image link at left to enter directly into the mineralminers.com Virtual Gallery of Genuine Citrine Jewelry designs, complete with images, descriptions and secure SSL on-line ordering. This page has many different styles of genuine citrine jewelry designs including citrine necklaces, citrine bracelets, citrine rings and citrine pendants - all set with genuine citrine gemstones cut from real citrine crystals that were mined in Brazil. These superior quality citrine jewelry items are sold and replaced on a daily basis, so remember to visit often!

You will also see natural citrine crystals & citrine mineral specimens just the way they came out of the earth!

Other rare quality citrine collectible items are available as well including citrine spheres and polished natural color citrine crystals.

Citrine is a macrocrystalline variety of the mineral Quartz. Quartz varieties are commonly separated into two groups based on the size of the individual grains or crystals; macrocrystalline quartz in which individual crystals are distinguishable with the naked eye, and cryptocrystalline quartz in which the individual crystals are too small to be easily distinguishable under the light microscope.

Some of the natural macrocrystalline quartz varieties are; natural color purple quartz (Amethyst), natural quartz with golden-orange-yellow color (Citrine), natural colorless quartz (known as Rock Crystal or as Quartz Crystal), natural color rose-pink quartz (Rose Quartz), natural quartz crystal with rutile inclusions (Rutilated Quartz), and natural color gray-brown quartz crystal known as Smoky Quartz.

The quartz varieties Blue Aventurine Quartz and also Green Aventurine Quartz are actually quartzites which is a rock, not a mineral, composed essentially of interlocking macrocrystalline quartz grains with disseminated grains of the color imparting minerals blue dumortierite and green fuchsite.

There are many cryptocrystalline quartz varieties including chalcedony, jasper and agate.

Citrine occurs in nature in siliceous volcanics, often forming geodes. Citrine also occurs in quartz veins. The golden-orange-yellow colors of natural citrine is due to small amounts (approximately 40 parts per million) of reduced iron impurities at specific sites in the crystal structure of quartz.

To see more jewelry items, gems, collectables, or crystals for another mineral variety, visit the alphabetical Mineral Index at mineralminers.com with links to images of natural gift items for each mineral listed in this index - all with secure SSL on-line ordering. There also are links to information pages on the different minerals giving factual scientific information as well as historical background info and the metaphysical properties for each mineral variety.