Broken (but resurrected) rock of the day: Citrine

[stephbg]

Citrine is as beautiful as the sun but also as common as mud, and one of the first crystal specimens I owned. One of my pieces broke quite spectacularly in The Great Shelf Collapse, and I found its loss deeply upsetting. Today I took out the pieces for a photoshoot to see if I could recapture some of the original magic, and much to my delight I did.



This first shot shows the pieces fit together to simulate the whole. The external shape is much the same as it was before, but there are many more internal fracture lines now.



I should have been able to replace this without any trouble, and looked at a lot of theoretically equivalent specimens. None would do.



Here are the pieces separated, and the point at which I realised that the biggest piece was still beautiful. I'm glad I couldn't bring myself to throw away any of the damaged pieces in the collection. (Thus speaks the woman who still owns a 16 1/2 year old tier of wedding cake.)



I tried to capture some of the internal colours, and here you can see hints of green within the gold.

Comments

[leecetheartist.livejournal.com]

Straight from the barley sugar mines this time?

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

Small tumbled pieces of citrine and quite a few others look exactly like lollies.