is chatoyant quartz. It has a parallel fibrous structure that gives its tiger stripe pattern, illusive depth and a silky lustre more commonly described as a "cat's-eye" effect. Tiger's Eye is black, with a combination of brown and gold stripes caused by the staining of iron oxide and it is believed to bring strength and power. Its primary source can be found in South Africa, but also occurs in India, Sri Lanka, Brazil, the USA and Western Australia.
an opaque brown stone, with bands of darker brown and golden-yellow. It has a silky luster, and catches the light along the golden bands, causing the chatoyant quality Tiger's Eye is known for. (Chatoyancy - having a changeable luster, like a cat's eye.)
A type of yellowish-brown to reddish-brown gemstone with a silky luster. When cut properly, it exhibits a narrow gleam of light that appears to move vertically along its surface as the stone moves. Green-gray varieties of this stone are called cat's-eye quartz. Blue-gray to bluish varieties are called hawk's-eye. Deep brown varieties of this stone are called bull's-eye or ox-eye. Tiger's eye rates a 7 on the Mohs hardness scale. (Also tigereye.)
a yellowish-brown stone whose colors seem to play.
semiprecious variety of quartz found in South Africa. It may be yellowish-brown, bluish, or red in color with bands of darker and lighter shades across its surface. It has a silky luster, and catches the light causing the chatoyant quality.
Tiger's eye is a variety of quartz with fine, similarly oriented fibrous inclusions. When properly cut into a cabochon, a chatoyant (changeable luster) effect is produced.
This projective stone promotes protection, courage, energy, luck and is good for divination and money spells. This is a warm stone and promotes energy flow through the body. Roman soldiers wore tiger's-eyes engraved for protection during battles.
(ca 1891) A usually yellow-brown stone formed from seams of fibrous asbestos, which through the ages have been transformed, into quartz. Its unique silky reflections, called chatoyancy, are caused by light bouncing back from the asbestos filaments.
A black quartz stone that, due to staining from iron oxide, contains yellow and golden brown stripes.
A semiprecious stone that is brown to golden yellow in color and has the appearance of a moving eye. Tiger's eye is one of the most popular semiprecious components used for costume jewelry and one of the most recognized.
A semi-precious variety of quartz found in South Africa, in yellowish-brown, blue or red. When cabochon cut, shows a single light streak across its face
Tiger's eye is a yellowish-brown to reddish-brown gemstone that has a silky luster. This gemstone has bands of yellow and brown; when viewed from the opposite direction, the colors are reversed. Tiger's eye is usually highly polished and set as a cabochon (or cut as a bead) to display the stone's chatoyancy (light reflected in thin bands within the stone). Tiger's eye is a type of chatoyant quartz with fibrous inclusions (especially crocidolite). This stone is sometimes heat-treated. Tiger's eye has a hardness of 7.0. Most tiger's eye is mined in South Africa, but it is also found in Australia, Brazil, Burma (Myanmar), India, Namibia, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), and the USA. Green-grey varieties of this stones are called cat's-eye quartz. Blue-grey to bluish varieties are called hawk's-eye. Deep brown varieties of this stone are called bull's-eye or ox-eye.
The name given to a gem which when cabochon cut shows a single light streak across its face. A semi-precious variety of quartz found in South Africa, it may be yellowish-brown, bluish, or red in color.
Tiger's eye (also Tigers eye, Tiger eye) is a chatoyant gemstone that is usually yellow- to red-brown, with a silky luster. It is a fibrous silicified crocidolite (blue asbestos), a classic example of pseudomorphous replacement. An incompletely silicified blue variant is called Hawk's eye.