It s a highly reflective and chatoyant stone and its silky appearance enhances the stone s beauty.
Blue tiger eye rock.
If you see tiger s eye in unnatural colors such as bright green or blue it has probably been dyed.
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.
Blue tigers eye is also known as hawk s eye silicified crocidolite falcon s eye rodusite and tiger s eye.
It is the asbestos that makes tiger eye a chatoyant gemstone meaning the fibers asbestos of the stone reflect in a wavering silky luster that can resemble the eye of a cat.
Like all quartz it is made up primarily of silicone dioxide sio 2.
Blue tigers eye usually comes in mid to dark blue colors bearing grey or greenish bands.
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.
During the replacement process the iron within the.
Within this matrix are asbestos fibers usually occurring in layers.
Tiger s eye is also a fairly hard stone 6 5 7 on the mohs hardness scale meaning it can easily scratch glass.
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.
Real tiger s eye is typically golden brown and has a distinctive banded shimmery appearance.