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Tiger's eye is a kind of gemstone with cat's eye effect, with its unique color and pattern, it has become a favorite jewelry material, currently tiger's eye is mainly used to make necklace and bracelets, it is inexpensive and good quality, it is more popular in the market. The following will introduce you the origin of natural tiger's eye stone.
Natural tiger's eye stone origin
Tiger's eye stone origin is Brazil, Australia, Namibia, China Henan, etc. In fact, the world's tiger's eye stone origin is not much, the most famous tiger's eye stone origin is South Africa, tiger's eye stone has a very important position in South Africa, is the national stone of South Africa. And China's tiger's eye stone production area is mainly in Henan, the tiger's eye stone mine found in Henan is the only tiger's eye stone mine production area in China.
- Xichuan tiger eye stone
- China, Namibia
China Henan, Namibia tiger's eye color from brownish yellow, brown, red, blue, blue-gray, transparent to translucent. Structurally, it is interesting mineral because it is a true crocidolite artifact, that is, the oriented mineral fiber crocidolite is completely replaced by quartz bodies, but without disrupting the original fiber form. This fibrous union appears as a silk mat when the original tiger's eye is first cut into a flat, thick slab, but, when cut into an oval, non-convex shape at right angles to the fibrous layer, this gives a satisfactory tiger's eye effect. Skilled cutting can occasionally produce good limited "eyes", but common tiger's eye stones have asbestos-like fibrous ripples and appear as several sets of tiger's eye bands.
- South Africa, Brazil
South African and Brazilian tiger's eye stones are mainly yellowish-brown in color and are named after their luminous color, which resembles a tiger's eye. In the tiger's eye group, due to its growth environment and the different trace elements it contains, a series of colorful ore bodies are formed, the more common is the tawny yellow tiger's eye stone, while the blue-gray blue tiger's eye stone and the reddish-brown red tiger's eye stone are a few, among which the eye line is clear, bright and complete, good luster and clear lines like a tiger's eye with vigor, no impurities on the stone, uniform texture and color is the best.
Tiger's eye stone is called "Silicified crocidolite" because of its wood-like appearance, it is made of crocidolite, the mineral composition of which is sodium amphibole, by the geological hydrothermal change in the appointment, the silica in the hydrothermal fluid gradually replaced the sodium amphibole, it became silicified crocidolite, its composition became quartz, its hardness is 7, specific gravity is 3.1. Tiger's eye stone can be divided into three categories according to color The yellow and yellow-brown ones with cat's eye effect are called tiger's eye, the blue-toned ones with cat's eye effect are called eagle's eye, and the brown ones with blue spots are called zebra tiger's eye.
