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Tigers Eye is a form of Quartz. It is tough like Quartz: a 7 on the Mohs Scale of Hardness. It is hard, unbendable and glass-like.

There is debate on how Tigers Eye has formed:

1. One school of thought says that Tigers Eye starts out as Crocidolite Asbestos (a fibrous blue mineral made of Iron and Sodium). Over time Quartz becomes embedded in the Crocidolite fibers. It absorbs and replaces the Crocidolite, but retains the fibrous shape of the former mineral. Traces of the Crocidolite's Iron remain to give the stone its golden color and this is known as Tigers Eye. (If less Iron remains, the stone will be more of the original blue Crocidolite color and this is known as Hawk's Eye.)

2. The other school of thought says that the Crocidolite and Quartz form together at the same time in a sealed, vein-filling formation.

Either way, the fibers of the Tigers Eye are bent and crumpled rather than straight. We can therefore see a brilliant, silky iridescent effect in the stone known as chatoyancy. The more chatoyant the stone, the more valuable it is to the collector.


Energetically, we can use any piece of Tigers Eye, it will have the same metaphysical properties despite its relative beauty:

• Tigers Eye is a great grounding stone (pulls you down to reality)

• Tigers Eye retains the energy of the sun, working to bring this brilliant light energy through your physical body, grounding you to the earth.

• Golden Tigers Eye is great for the Solar Plexus Chakra, bringing emotional wellbeing, confidence and courage.

• Tigers Eye is a great business stone, bringing logical thinking into your dealings, keeping the emotional level balanced.

• Tigers Eye is especially effective for stubborn people, helping to bring a positive and open-minded attitude for those willing to let go of their old habits.


Mineral Facts

Surface Color: Yellow, Brown

Streak Color (can vary from surface color, this is the color of the crystals’ powdered minerals): White

Group: Silicates (silicon + oxygen)

Cleavage (where the crystal breaks off naturally to form a new face, parallel to its structure. This is a clean break and can cleave over and over again along the same face, retaining the crystals structure): None

Fracture: Conchoidal (clam-like concave like when glass breaks)

Luster: Vitreous (glassy)

Transparency: Translucent (allows light through the crystal but not fully transparent)

Crystal System: Hexagonal/Trigonal (3 equal axis @ 120’ to one another and a 4th axis perpendicular to the other three)

Crystal Habit: Fibrous


Personal Experience - "I am very attracted to rich, earthy tones. I like to use Tigers Eye for grounding. I love the brilliant chatoyancy of Golden Tigers Eye. Holding smooth tumbled Tigers Eye in my hands helps to bring me back to earth, especially great in the car when my mind wanders. I use the rough Tigers Eye as a natural background for photographing my I Dig Crystals jewelry line. We place a Tigers Eye Ganesh at our register area to help us in business."-Sheila Satin
 

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