TIGER IRON SLAB 17
An outstanding West Australian Tiger Iron slab 17! Features beautiful bands of golden tiger eye and hematite with some jasper. This piece is liquid glassed to allow its true beauty to come alive! A perfect gift for a lapidarist or carver.
Location:
Mount Brockman (Marra Mamba), Ashburton Shire, Western Australia, Australia.
Dimensions:
7.9cm x 5.5cm x 0.8cm, 81g.
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.