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Tiger's Eye

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Description
Locality: 
Prieska, Pixley ka Seme, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
Class: 
Cut Stone
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.5 × 6 × 1 cm
Description

Interesting cut and polished Tigers Eye (Common name for a variety of quartz which is chatoyant because of subparallel intergrowth of quartz crystals and altered amphibole fibres that mostly turned into limonite.) from Prieska, Pixley ka Seme, Northern Cape Province in South Africa

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tiger's Eye

Mixture Of: 

Crocidolite

Hardness: 
0.0

Riebeckite

Formula: 
◻[Na2][Fe2+3Fe3+2]Si8O22(
Strunz: 
9.DE.25
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5

Chalcedony

Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0