Blue Tiger Eye Rock

Real tiger s eye is typically golden brown and has a distinctive banded shimmery appearance.

Blue tiger eye rock.

Like all quartz it is made up primarily of silicone dioxide sio 2. It s a highly reflective and chatoyant stone and its silky appearance enhances the stone s beauty. Tiger s eye also called tiger eye is a chatoyant gemstone that is usually a metamorphic rock with a golden to red brown colour and a silky lustre as members of the quartz group tiger s eye and the related blue coloured mineral hawk s eye gain their silky lustrous appearance from the parallel intergrowth of quartz crystals and altered amphibole fibres that have mostly turned into limonite. Tiger s eye or tiger eye is a variety of macrocrystalline quartz known for its remarkable chatoyancy and rich layers of gold and brown color.

Tigers eye is a form of quartz with some special characteristics. Blue tigers eye usually comes in mid to dark blue colors bearing grey or greenish bands. If you see tiger s eye in unnatural colors such as bright green or blue it has probably been dyed. Within this matrix are asbestos fibers usually occurring in layers.

During the replacement process the iron within the. Blue tigers eye is also known as hawk s eye silicified crocidolite falcon s eye rodusite and tiger s eye. It is thought to be a pseudomorph of quartz formed as layers of crocidolite a fibrous blue asbestos were replaced over time by chalcedony quartz while still retaining the original shape of the. Tiger s eye forms when quartz forms over existing bluish gray crocidolite and eventually entirely replaces it crocidolite is a type of asbestos mineral which means its composition is of fine dense fibers.