.9" Polished Tiger's Eye Sphere

This is a small, .9" wide, polished tiger's eye sphere. The pictures are representative of the specimen(s) you will receive, so there may be some variation in patterns and color. Being that these specimens are hand polished, there may be some variation in size as well (.8" to 1")

Tiger's eye or Tiger Eye is a gorgeous, chatoyant gemstone with alternating bands of golden to red-brown color and a silky luster. It has a fascinating and constantly shifting light effect where the gold and brown bands appear to keep reversing as the stone is moved relative to the light source.

Tiger's eye is actually a variety of quartz which is chatoyant because of subparallel intergrowth of quartz crystals and altered amphibole fibres that have turned into limonite. It's primarily used in ornamental and lapidary purposes. Primary sources of Tiger's Eye are South Africa, Australia and China.

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