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moonstone & citrine?

Posted: Thu May 23, 2013 8:02 am
by Lorraine
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Hello, I'm new here :wave:

just wondering about these two, I think they're a moonstone (on the left) and a citrine, what do you think?

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Re: moonstone & citrine?

Posted: Thu May 23, 2013 10:02 am
by Firebird
Hi Lorraine!...I think the one on the left is calcite, and the right one is possibly citrine, is it a little yellow? the photo is not doing it justice. Anyway that's my thoughts...
BB, Firebird

Re: moonstone & citrine?

Posted: Thu May 23, 2013 10:18 am
by Lorraine
Thanks for that.

The one on the right is kind of sparkly, a bit see through in the middle with a goldy/yellow streak across the middle. The one on the right looks kind of dull when you first look at it , but when you look closely is is quite iridescent with hidden depths and layers.

It's quite hard to get a clear enough photo, that is small enough to up load to forum :)

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Re: moonstone & citrine?

Posted: Thu May 23, 2013 4:48 pm
by raynelae
I think you're right about the left one being moonstone but I have no idea about the other.

Re: moonstone & citrine?

Posted: Sat May 25, 2013 11:51 pm
by Lillady
After comparing them to my own and various pictures on the net it looks to me as they are Calcite and Citrine

moonstone & citrine?

Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 11:26 am
by MistressOfTheMoon
The one on the right might be a yellow aventurine. Not sure. Aventurine is characterized by the sparkles.

Update: Oh. Most likely citrine based on the pictures I Googled. Yellow adventurine is near opaque hazy. My apologies.