I’ve always been fascinated with coloured gemstones. When I started making YouTube videos back in 2010, I had no idea that the rings I was wearing would get almost as many comments as my make uptechniques. The Complete Crystal Bible – 500 crystals to heal your body, mind and spirit. Personally, I am more of a purist, in that I prefer to work with naturally occurring crystals… Many believe that these crystals are very powerful healing stones cleansing and healing your auric field, this is due largely to the presence of gold which covers the stone, combining with the high vibration of the quartz. Aqua aura is formed when fine vaporised gold is bonded to clear quartz crystals. The following is an example of artificially created green quartz:Ĭontrary to what is widely believed these crystals are fully synthetic. These synthetically created pasiolite samples are easily recognised by their vivid green colour. Natural vermarine / pasiolite is rare and expensive, as a result it is being synthetically created by a subjecting amethyst to a combination of heat and ionizing treatment radiation (Be 2+ is used as catalyst for more Fe 2+ to be taken up). The colour of Prasiolite is due to the presence of Fe 2+. The combination of the heating and the presence of un-bonded iron in the magma resulted in the formation of Prasiolite. The Vermarine from Thunder Bay was formed when an amethyst deposit was overrun by a basalt flow. Natural Prasiolite is sourced from Thunder Bay in Canada, along with a few other sides in the Northern Hemisphere. In its natural form it is olive green or pale yellow-green in colour. Vermarine, also known as Prasiolite is a naturally occurring green quartz. These dark orange-brown crystals are an easy way to spot “fake” citrine.Īrtificially created Green Quartz sold as Prasiolite / Vermarine This man-made citrine is always bright and sometimes opaque in colour. This heat treated amethyst is then sold as citrine to the unsuspecting public. When this conversion from amethyst, through ametrine to citrine occurs naturally, the citrine crystals are pale in colour, they have yellow champagne, pale brown (weak tea colour) or pale orange hues:īecause natural citrine (image courtesy of ) is quite rare, it has become practice in some circles to artificially create citrine by “cooking” amethyst in furnaces, sometimes even right at the mine from where it is sourced. The in-between stage between amethyst and citrine is ametrine:
When amethyst is exposed to heat of between 450 to 600☌ over a sustained period of time Citrine is formed. Under the Moh’s hardness scale, your fingernail has a hardness of 2 ½ ,coins 3 ½, a knife blade is 5 ½, glass is 6, quartz is 7, diamond is 10Īmethyst is formed when iron-rich (Fe 3+) quartz is exposed to Gamma Rays and is oxidized to Fe 4+. If you scratch your “amethyst” crystal point with a knife and it is damaged by a knife blade, it has a hardness of less than 5 ½, in fact it is a prime indicator that it is actually fluorite which has a hardness of 4. Thus quartz cannot be scratched by a knife. All quartz has a hardness of 7 on the hardness scale devised by Friedrich Mohs. Probably the simplest way to spot fake amethyst is to check its hardness. This is because amethyst has a trigonal crystal system, i.e.
Side by side you can see that the white inclusions in fluorite form parallel lines (due to its internal cubic structure) whereas the white inclusions in chevron amethyst are random and angled.
When purple fluoride is cut in crystal points like this one, they can resemble chevron amethyst. Many raw crystals and minerals are cut into crystal points. Purple fluorite in its natural form forms cubic crystals. Crystals however are a finite resource, this has led some unscrupulous suppliers to artificially create quartz varieties in high demand or sell other crystal varieties as quartzes.īelow are some examples of the more common fakes that I have come across. Where a demand exists, the belief is that supply must meet this demand. Over the last decade or so, there has been a massive resurgence in the interest in crystals for healing and metaphysical uses, this has led to huge demand for crystals.
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