Varigated Tiger eye

Tiger eye or Tiger's eye is from South Africa and comes in the natural golden color and blue or a mixture of the two or Variegated. This is the variegated version. Tiger eye is a chatoyant stone that is usually a metamorphic rock with a golden to red-brown color and soft flashing tone. A member of the quartz group, red tiger's eye and the blue hawk's eye gain their glowing appearance from the parallel inter growth of quartz crystals and altered amphibole fibres.-WET pic.-(3"x 1.5"/2 oz/5mm thick) no fractures