BLUE TIGER EYE SPHERE 2
A dazzling, chatoyant Blue Tiger Eye Sphere, also known as Hawk’s Eye. Blue and Gold shimmer about as you move the sphere around. A rare and collectible piece that you won’t be able to put down! Chatoyance is an amazing characteristic which gives an ethereal quality to all good Tiger Eye specimens. When highly polished into a sphere like this, it is accentuated. Buy this beautiful sphere as a gift and be in someones good books for years to come!
Location:
South Africa
Dimensions:
5.7cm diameter, 258g
TIGER EYE
A common name for a variety of quartz which is chatoyant because of subparallel intergrowth of quartz crystals and altered amphibole fibres that mostly turned into limonite. Much used as an ornamental and lapidary rock.Varieties include Gold Tiger Eye, Red Tiger Eye, Blue Tiger Eye and Tiger Iron which is identified by the visible Hematite veins that run through it.