HOW TO SPOT REAL VS. FAKE CITRINE! MY 4 TIPS TO BECOME AN EXPERT, INDUSTRY SECRETS!

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That smoky citrine is gorgeous 😍

Thank youu ♥️😊

Pls make a vid on real kundalini and fake kundalini citrine. It is very hard to differentiate and there's like no information bout it online

People who make fakes deserve the outmost of punishment. They are worse than politicians.

Omg — my whole relationship with citrine has been a lie … 12 years of heated amethyst lol 😭😭 I’m going to your shop to look for real citrine .. hahahahahaaaa

I need the real the real ones

Please I really need some of those Please

Idk if I have a fake or not. I have a small tumbled citrine stone that I was gifted. It's from Eathbound BTW! It has a white spot but it's not that and it's not really cloudy, just white...it has no other fake crystal "symptoms". I think it's real but I am not sure...
I need help

Would be best to handle the pieces in explaining the differences. Just being on a tray as a picture, I can't tell what pieces you are talking about.

In some rare cases when amethyst is heat treated, rather than turning into citrine, it turns a pale green colour.

P.S. the only the crystal skull has been carved, all the other man made shapes have been "cut and polished*, most were faceted, the sphere would be considered shaped, in essence it was cut and polished by a series of machines rather than the skilled hands of a lapidary, nonetheless only the skull was carved by a carver.

So the natural has a more "orange-ish" color typically?

Excellent video! Thank you!

Your the best than you. 🔮

So I have a question. My rose quartz came pretty much clear. Is there a way to restore the color or are some rose quartz just very pale in color

I think the big boy one looks like Amethyst in its previous life 😂 the very signaling "lines" which is very typical of Amethyst and not Smoky.

I feel like am in Crystal University ❤

This definitely shows me I paid $96.00 for a china carved heat treated smoky quartz pretending to be citrine🙄 😮

if you bring all the left one to Lab they will become smoky quartz tbh

So how that phantom exactly looks and smokey cord? Is it this cloud?

Great informative video. Thank you!

I love you , you’re so smart!

Why would anybody fake citrine it's not worth that much anyways

THANK YOU!

I think also with your "fake" citrines on the right side - its super easy to tell that those are very YELLOW colored, vs the usual color of natural citrine is more orangey or amber colored. I don't know if you mentioned that in the video. But that yellow color is a dead giveaway to me. A lot of times, retailers will call that "lemon" quartz or "lemon" citrine

I definitely don't consider heat-treated amethyst to be "fake" citrine. Citrine and Amethyst are really just types of quartz, and the color is derived from mineral inclusions in the crystal plus a various amount of heat. Many crystals are naturally heat treated inside of the Earth, so humans heating it once it is mined from the Earth is really just mimicking what happens in the Earth. I believe that once Amethyst is heated to become Citrine, it has the energy of Citrine, not the energy of Amethyst. Color does matter!

Darker comes from places closest to equator…. It’s labeled Citron in northern areas ie. Russia , china , etc because it doesn’t have the darker orange hue but more of a green yellow. Still natural, their markets aren’t compelled to sell to western markets as much as Brazil and Madagascar or Africa aka places closer to us so that’s just what we’re used to. China and Russia have THOUSANDS more miles and caves to excavate for crystals and guaranteed we have yet to see all those lands have to offer

Color yes

Dude I’ve bought 5 huge scoops off of tik toc. I just know for a fact that everything I bought is fake. Wtf am I going to do? 😢

oh wow, very appreciated knowledge

$200 - $300 for 1Kg of citrine? Everything is so much cheaper in the US. I recently was happy to buy a beautiful 20g raw natural citrine for £15 in England! That's how I knew it was genuine citrine. I buy crystals such as 20g red jasper worry stones for £5, which is then the upper price you'd pay for citrine in the US!

Based on this video I sadly have to admit the citrine I bought is fake 😢although I’ve bought from the local shop a few times and everything else I got is real

I had a question now you answer it on this video I believe my stones are fake I'm so disappointed😭😭

So after watching some of your videos...I have put all my so called crystals away...how disappointing to see they are fake....😣

Where is a good place to source these rare citrine crystals?

Awesome thanks 😊 🙏🏽 Namaste ♥️ 🥰

So is the right side actually "fake" or just dyed or whatever treated means

That dark one is stunning

thank you!! i’ve been getting into thrifting and repurposing beads recently and I believe I found some citrine beads!!

Well dang. Looked at one of my "citrine" peices...it still has some purple even when you look at is under the light closely. -___-

Amazing video! Thank you for that. I've been selling crystals myself, as a jewelry though. And yet I still wasn't quite sure how to find a real citrine tower. Watched few different videos on it yet yours had the best explanatory!

Citrine chips from China. Are they real?

thanks a lot, very good explanation!

Thanks, very informative!

If I'm working with crystals for energetic properties, is there a difference between natural citrine vs heated amethyst from that perspective?

Thank so much for this video! I found that certain crystal and gemstone retailers selling high quality strands of "citrine" beads (for jewelry making) are in fact heat treated amethyst. The beauty, clarity and sparkle is evident in the faceted bead but the color is of a deep yellow-orange reminiscent of imperial topaz. These beads are not natural citrine. Most retailers won't bring it up unless the customer inquires.

You mention the costly "wastage" on natural citrine...which explains why these quality faceted beads are in fact treated amethyst and not natural citrine. Pricey enough for the quality, they would have been much more if the beads were authentic citrine.

Thank you. Very thorough and informative.

Can you do how to spot fake Garnet?

Fake Citrine also turns blue with UV light right?

Not citrine but I had bought lots of Clear Quartz online believing that they are real until I found a shop that sells legit natural clear quartz. The differences that I saw is the clarity.
FAKE
-looks like the tower on the right side of the video which has extreme clarity that doesnt look so natural as it is TOO MUCH CLEAR just like how clear a glass is ( a lot of them )
-Beware as sound test doesnt work on them. It doesnt sound glass at all. It sounds like QUARTZ! Idk how they did it but there are still some things you can look at so you’ll not be fooled.
-Beware from clusters, a lot of them are lab made and looks real. But you can notice that the points in their clusters are smaller than what is natural since they are forced to form in a small amount of time.
-You can see from the items their are selling are almost all are identical in shapes and sizes which means lab made and are almost perfect for them to sell it more easily.
-When it breaks, it will have this certain type of look which happens when glass breaks, which they know you wont try to break them so...

NATURAL
-Even if it breaks, it will less likely cut you because even if it is already broken, it is still more blunt than glass.
-You can search but they have a very different appearance when a real ones break compared to those who are made of glass.
-Unpolished natural crystals has a distinct patterns and roughness at the surface.
-They quite sound differently than the “stone sound” of the fake ones.

Companies and manufacturing really did a great job at copying what mother nature gave us. It’s really fine with me as long as they state that those are not the legit crystals found on earth rather are lab made, but no. They wont tell you that because you wont buy. What’s worse is that they sell those fake crystals near the price of the ORGINAL ones! I spent a lot of money buying from those shops and believe me they are EVERYWHERE. It is very hard to detect which one is real from which on is not.

Please do your research before buying and please buy from respected sellers which sells only legit crystals. Good luck!