TIGER EYE SLAB 2
A West Australian Tiger Eye slab 2! Features beautiful tight bands of shimmery golden tiger eye with some Jasper. A perfect gift for a lapidarist or carver. Both sides have messy liquid glass on it. Bargain!
Location:
Mount Brockman (Marra Mamba), Ashburton Shire, Western Australia, Australia.
Dimensions:
6cm x 4.5cm x 0.6cm, 48g.
Tiger Eye
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.