| MadSci Network: Chemistry |
In short: Chemical impurities in a crystal can produce many many colors.
Since "citrine" is the variety of quartz that is the most gem-like the
trick would be to find citrine that happens to be blue. So on the
internet at your favorite search engine you might search on "blue
citrine"; I found an interesting result on eBay:
http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/richmondgem_W0QQ_nkwZGoldenQ20BlueQ20CitrineQQ_armrsZ1QQ
_fromZQQ_mdoZ
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