HOW TO SPOT REAL VS. FAKE CITRINE! MY 4 TIPS TO BECOME AN EXPERT, INDUSTRY SECRETS!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ม.ค. 2022
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Welcome back to another video! In this weeks video I will be walking you step by step through how to identify fake citrine!
I will be giving you tips on what to look for to become a better buyer and seller! Its taken me 3 years to learn all this and I'm so excited to share it with you so you can learn how to spot fake citrine just like me!
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Thanks I ordered one on Amazon it’s only a bit yellow on the base like you said I really want to get better at spotting g fakes cause crystals can be pricey
Hi barbie I have a quick? Please? Do citrine bracelets have white, yellow, and red colors? The white is like the cloudy in your crystals. But I didn't know citrine had red specks ?
Thank you in advance ❤️ 🙏
Sooooo as a geo, just letting you know you can get natural citrine with a more cloudy base, it doesn't necessarily mean it was lab made. All minerals are created with heat and pressure so it would just depend on the locality. The yellow coloring is due to element inclusions, and color is the last thing to look at in the determination of a mineral as a general rule. Ive seen an extremely wide range of quartz variations and the color intensity/abundance depends on a variety of factors, like temperature, pressure, element inclusions, surrounding minerals, deposit type etc.. no shade, just an FYI :) ...either way if you out it in the sun long enough, it'll lose its color.
You are correct, but she is also correct when talking about what we are seeing on the market via wholesale. Its a great guide when buying stuff wholesale in bulk, especially overseas. It is less accurate when buying single high quality pieces though, and single specimen pieces of good quality are like you describe and you can't go by the hints talked about in this video. Thanks for sharing your knowledge though as it is very helpful to get the whole story.
Yes agree with you, I’m more so saying overall to look at several signs of fakes, not so much just one of these signs, there are always exceptions!
A professional comment~~~ very helpful~ I don't think cloudy based is meaning it is man made citrine quartz...
@@ColdBrewBarbie I have worked at a high end crystal shop for years and while some of what you’ve said is true, it’s also true that some genuine citrines look like the stones on the right, depending on locality. For example, Citrine from the Congo can be more yellow than honey. It can be cloudy or clear. And it can have a white base, but still be real citrine. Also, high end polished citrine points or towers also look like the point on the right. And they’re all real. Not hating, just informing. :) Love your videos.
I work off miners tailings all the time. Even on a mountain side have a cloudy or white base is completely natural. Digging on the mountains you will also find simple things. For instance it's common to find cloudy or lightly faded color amethyst at the base of growth for the crystals. And as stated before, all crystals are created through heat and pressure. A better way to tell whether you have real material would also be locality. Knowing what kind of material comes out of the area you are buying it from. Because this can tell you a number of things you would need to know in order to tell if it should look like that or not. It's like trying to buy amethyst. 90%+ of the amethyst in the market is heat treated but knowing simply where it came from can answer whether or not your amethyst is natural or heat treated by man. Also sanding plays a role in the way many people sell crystals. Most people will sand down the stones to get rid of outer fractures and rusting or pyrite materials. So a solidly uniformed crystal doesn't mean it's not a natural stone.
I love how you accept that sometimes even the best of us buy fakes. It is part of the learning process
I just saw mark bejerski say he’s got a drawer full of fakes. So even he can get fooled! He’s got a gem tester now so that will be my next big splurge.
I needed something like this! I bought a couple pieces at a show that I kind of wondered if it was heat treated because of the neon hue and couldn’t find much of anything anywhere on how to differentiate. Everyone talks about the heat treated clusters not the other styles.. I appreciate this!
thank you for making this after our convo, you rock! I am so lucky all my citrine is from you!!
As always, you are so informative and so honest! Thank you!
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!
Absolutely loved this video and the In-depth explanation on how to spot the difference. I would love even more of these! Although I know you’ve done many lol
Lol girl you’re not alone, these are my most requested videos!
Very informative! Well presented! Thanks!
I stumbled on this video and learned something new! Thank you so very much!!
This is an AMAZING video! You're really sharing some phenomenal info on how you do what you do! Did you ever think about creating your own professional crystal buyer/seller master class?
You can have non-lab heat created citrine. It can naturally be heated in the earth under extreme heat & have that bright orange glow. 🌈
She said that at 2:22 ❤️
Thank you so much, that ia really valuable and important information. Bless you 🙏💖
Thank you. Very thorough and informative.
Excellent video! Thank you!
Great tips! thank you so much..❤
Oh wow, you are in Mpls? So am I. I live near the zoo.
Great video!! Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge with us & for free.
Great informative video. Thank you!
TY so much for the great information. :)
Thanks, very informative!
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.
Great video! Love to see someone talking about this since it doesn't seem to be talked about much. Lemon quartz is man irradiated clear or smoky quartz, and can have phantoms, but just wanna let you know that genuine citrine can also have phantoms naturally. Phantoms indicate a temporary change in conditions while growing. I have been collecting citrine for a while now and I have quite a bit of natural raw Zambian citrine that show phantoms on the smaller points, but it is significantly less common to see phantoms on Brazilian citrine it seems.
Yes totally agree! I’ve seen it more common in African citrine vs. Brazilian!
Great help thank you , and also knowing you will spot a fake for a small fee thank you thats great to know
Wow... Thanks so much. Please also do a video on amethyst 😘💕✨
thanks a lot, very good explanation!
Thank you for the information. This is very eye opening. I just thought the "fake" citrine was that obvious, baked burnt orange color, especially if it had a white base. 😒. Turns out I have more in my collection than I thought, because they look more like the ones on the right side of your tray. 😕. Some have phantoms and are more a bright yellow, like your examples, and they are more precision cut indicative of Chinese carvers. Looks like I have only four actual authentic citrine pieces in my entire collection. 😳. That being said, I've done a LOT of work with the crystals that I thought were "smokey citrine", and they have served me well and are VERY powerful and protective. (On a few occasions, they've absorbed so much negative energy, that they actually turned black!). They are also excellent for healing/cleansing/purging your solar plexus and intestines. And also looking back, I thankfully didn't get ripped off on pricing, in hind sight, I paid for what I got, NOT what I thought I was buying, so that's all good. 😁👍. Each of my crystals that I have in my collection are there because the energy called to me, and it turns out I do more work with the altered/ modified "smokey citrine" than the natural. Maybe because of the irradiation, it's more offensive in nature when you're doing the heavy lifting in energy work. Feels more attack dog than guard dog to me, if that makes sense. Thank you for the information, I learned something new today. 😃💎🥰
oh wow, very appreciated knowledge
I love you , you’re so smart!
Thank you for this video!! I have a piece that after this video I’m still unsure about- it is more of a natural looking tea colour, not a perfect symmetrical tower shape, no white in the base, but it is smoky with dark phantoms. I may have to check out your Etsy lol
Thanks for your dedicated and very detailed video! So much fakes out there these days.
I love the skull!
I am very happy, I was able to snag a natural citrine flame from Brazil! It even has that dark golden color and rutile!
thank you!! i’ve been getting into thrifting and repurposing beads recently and I believe I found some citrine beads!!
Thank you so much for making this vid! 🙏👏 I didnt know that fake citrine has a white base and can be manipulated with quartz. Theres not a lot of videos that go into depth about them so I greatly appreciate how you explained everything. I have a kundilini citrine and I thought "great 😒 its not real...(white bottom)" Then you showed yours and mine kinda looks like that just smaller lol. I love citrine ☺ (I hope mine aren't fake lmao😅)
Thank you for sharing. In fact I am a beginner in gem. And I am glad I picked up a lot of good information in differentiating the real from raw. Since young, I always envy ppl digging out beautiful raw crystals from caves or mines. But unfortunately being in Hong Kong, I have not much choice when buying crystals. But you are right. I am fortunate to meet an honest wholesale guy in China that sells raw crystals. no fake. But thank you for sharing this information !
There's a great channel, Gemstones that is excellent for teaching about rocks and minerals.
Thanks so much for this! This was very helpful. ❤️
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
Awe, I have a beautiful teardrop cut bright yellow citrine necklace. I really love it anyways but I always wondered if it was natural. I knew something wasn't right with how pretty it is for the price I paid. Anyways, I learned alot from the video! I consider myself a crystal collector and I didn't even know the whole amethyst-citrine deal. 🤦♀️
I lived in Brazil and got some gorgeous clear quartz and amethyst points and clusters but it was so hard to find authentic citrine, I found heat treated amethyst sold as citrine. Where do you get your crystals in Brazil?
That dark one is stunning
Love the citrine lab heated amethyst, I think it's gorgeous. Heated citrine from the earth is beautiful too lol love them all. I dig the properties of the stones the most 😉✌️🖤 ty for sharing
Me too
If I'm working with crystals for energetic properties, is there a difference between natural citrine vs heated amethyst from that perspective?
How can you tell difference between Smokey and phantom? I saw what you were referencing the first phantom, but struggled to see what you were pointing out in the second smaller phantom containing crystal
love your videos. Can you make more Real VS Fake crystal videos.
THANK YOU!
You're welcome! 💕
Thank youu ♥️😊
I will NEVER buy online again. I got so gaslit by a seller over citrine
Take a shot for each time she says citrine. Lol I'm playing but thanks for this video! I never know citrine was supposed to be a honey color
And she pronounces it weird as hell too lol
Is it safer to just buy citrine clusters? Or is there a way to fake cluster (in quartz) formation as well?
Thank you for this!!! My Smokey quartz has a cloudy base. Pretty sure it has been treated after watching this! ☹️
I can show you a smokey quartz rod an point (actually serveral) that have cloudy bases. It's found that way naturally in the mines I've been to. I wouldn't be to worried.
Hi.. I have quite afew citrines that have phantoms and in sphere shape. The seller said they are from Brazil so I'm confused if mine is genuine now or not
I bought a kundalini citrine, but the base is also white and the color is smoky tea color (not honey color). How can you fake a kundalini citrine? (Since it has its unique raw shape). Or perhaps smoky or normal Quartz can also have that shape and they heat treated it to make it kundalini citrine?
Thank you!!!!!!!
That smoky citrine is gorgeous 😍
Do you think some big chinese crystal Dealers from ebay could be selling fake quartz points? I feel like maybe they're faking regular or smoky terminated quartz points - like the bigger ones (1lb - 10lb ish)
Thanx so much! Would you consider doing a video on fake turquoise and real.
I have touched on this in my fake video series! Check it out there is a playlist on my channel!
Lol i brought some citrine that has come from congo in zambia:it has rainbow inclusions and a beautiful champagne colour:thank you for your video and knowledge 😄
Congo citrine is beautiful 😻
I hope you have some in your collection wow the day i got it i took it to bed i was that happy i could not sleep lol:it was like it was attracted to me like a magnet lol
People who make fakes deserve the outmost of punishment. They are worse than politicians.
Where do you purchase your crystals 🔮
Awesome thanks 😊 🙏🏽 Namaste ♥️ 🥰
I love citrine one of my favorites to purchase and sale I feel like everyone should have one it's so beautiful ❤️ so glad my ancestors led me to your channel thanks so much I subscribed ❤️❤️❤️ sending love light and healing vibes 🫂 Namaste 🌈🌈🙏🏿🧘🏿♀️
So how that phantom exactly looks and smokey cord? Is it this cloud?
I- I’ve spent so much on fake citrine :’) I got my first citrine point when I was young, it was the classic burnt amethyst point with the little white roots and burnt orange too… up until a couple months ago I didn’t know this was heat treated amethyst! Then wound up buying some pieces on the right, and thought they were real vitrines :’) I spent a pretty penny on the ones I thought were real but they have the excess white, the phantoms, now that I put it in the light the color isn’t as even and it’s sad ;’)
I offer natural citrine in my Etsy shop!
@@ColdBrewBarbie thank you so much! I just went and ordered a mini citrine tower 🥺, my name is sarah 😊 thank you so much for being an authentic crystal business with good morals! ❤️
Where can I send my crystal for authentication?
Спасибо!
What about bracelets? Are most citrine bracelets fake?
thanks for information so as i guess natural citrine is not yellow color and it is pale or brown color isn't it?
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
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.
Where is a good place to source these rare citrine crystals?
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
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I have five kg nature white quartz crystel plz tell me how do I sell this online
So what is the treatment?
You should see my citrines one of them is the size of a car wheel with a tire and it’s at that heavy I can’t lift it and I have smaller pieces of citrine ,different shapes and sizes which I’ll be absolutely beautiful,wish I could send you some photos .
Hi.. here to tell ya... I work with Brasilian citrine .. and it's really expensive. People tends to lie about that so they can sell their materials, but I'm really against this
Please I really need some of those Please
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 thought I was so smart and learned to spot the obvious dark amber coloured HTA and bought myself one of the yellow citrines from China.. 🤦🏻♀️
does this tip the same with amethyst and clear quarts??
They are actually different and usually are not heat treated!
Can you do one on Rainbow Citrine, are those heat treated? Or are there natural Citrines with Rainbws? Thank you.
Yes! The rainbows are caused by inclusions so both fake and treated citrine can have them!
I think it's sad i feel public are decieved by alot of crystal sellers :they should state whether crystals are real or fake i feel as fake can cost the earth:it's so nice though that we have sellers and honest people like coldbrewbarbie to help us with the knowledge as most of us want the real deal:this lady taught me alot about crystals and i appreciate her video's and sharing.😄👍
I feel like am in Crystal University ❤
Omg I didn’t know they making fake crystals 🤦🏾♂️ I already bought so many.
I saw some lemon or lime citrine on etsy i think and i wondered if that was real, i guess now i know it isn‘t
problem is that white base can just be cut off ...
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
unfortunately there’s no way to restore color but it’s very common for rose quartz to be a muted pink !
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 guess i bought a heated one cause its has more cloudy at the bottom
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So the natural has a more "orange-ish" color typically?
I would say it ranges from a champagne to honey color. and thing mountain dew yellow or neon yellow is treated!
Hahahaha it's the seek of perfection of my fellow Chinese people!
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.
Can you do how to spot fake Garnet?
So is the right side actually "fake" or just dyed or whatever treated means
In my mind if it’s not real it’s fake, think of a fake plant, it looks like the real thing but it isn’t actually a plant it’s plastic. This is very similar
I'm sad some of mine are fake. Especially when the people who sold them to me told me they were 100% real.
Yeah this is so common, a lot of people don’t take any time to research and become experts before opening crystal shops
lumarian is citrine?
I wish I knew this when I started collecting....😩
There isn’t a ton of information out there unfortunately so I’ve tried to educate as many people as possible
@@ColdBrewBarbie would you happen to know if irradiated smoky quartz gets cloudy white at the base as well? Or amethyst?
I just learned citrine and amethyst were that close