TIGER EYE CABOCHON TEARDROP
Tiger Eye Cabochon Teardrop. A surprise from a local Lapidarist who is past retirement. Some old stock of high quality which has great chatoyancy light effect. An outstanding West Australian Tiger Eye Cab. Features beautiful bands of Golden Tiger Eye. A perfect gift for a Jeweller, Lapidarist or Carver. Our photos don’t show the full beauty and Chatoyance. Polished on both sides this is an absolute stunner and would have been cut for competition.
Location:
Mount Brockman, Marra Mamba, Ashburton Shire, Western Australia, Australia.
Dimensions:
3.74cm x 2.19cm x 0.59cm, 7g.
TIGER EYE
Tiger eye is a chatoyant, siliceous fibre vein, rich in quartz,iron oxides, usually with some riebeckite. A recent theory suggests the veins formed as fibrous quartz crystals with interspersed hematite and riebeckite fibres. Growing rapidly from the surrounding rocks during low grade metamorphism. Tiger Iron is Tiger Eye with Hematite (Iron) veins running through it and sometime has red Jasper veins too.