Red Tigereye Rough Rock Tigers Eye Stone Slab Africa Cabbing #O6

Description

Red Tiger's Eye Rough Rock Slab Stone Africa for Cabbing
Lovely flashy or chatoyant
Red Tiger's Eye or Tigereye
from Africa.
This lapidary
rough rock stone slab for cabbing is 6 inches by 2.5 inches and 7.7 mm thick.
This unpolished semi precious stone slab
weighs .42 lbs.
is shown wet in the first 3 pictures.
Tiger's Eye is a quartz usually with rich yellow and brown stripes, but can be red or blue.
It contains oriented fibers of crocidolite that have been replaced by silica. The fibers are twisted or crumpled instead of straight, reminiscent of sand and sunlight.
Tiger-eye is also vitreous (hard, unbendable and glass-like). With its strong chatoyance, the gemstone gets its name from its resemblance to the eye of a tiger.
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