Tiger Eye 8mm Star Cut Coin A Grade - 15-16 InchTiger Eye is a macrocrystalline Quartz stone with bands of rich golds and browns. Its chatoyant layers that create a flash which seems to emanate from within the stone as they catch the light. Tiger Eye has been revered and feared throughout history as an all to seeing, all to knowing eye, as well as a stone of prosperity, protection and good fortune.

It can range in color from pale pink to deep rose or even rusty red tones depending on the concentration of Manganese

Its inclusions of golden tones to rust to red are due to traces of hematite embedded in the stone

originally from the Lapis-Lazuli mine in Afghanistan

it is a combination of Amethyst and Citrine

Tiger Eye has been revered and feared throughout history as an

Most commonly mined in Madagascar

brown and red bands of color allow the stone to be matched with many other gemstones in designs

which can be found throughout South and Southeast Asia

and over time

in 315 BCE

but it can also occur as orange

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