Tiger's eye
At a glance
- Type
- Mineral
- Group
- Oxide
- Crystal system
- Trigonal
- Hardness
- Hard (5.5 to 7.5)
- Density
- Medium (2.5 to 3.2)
- Occurs in
- Metamorphic rocks
- Foliation
- Not layered
- Colour
- Yellow, Brown
- Lustre
- Silky
- Use
- Jewellery
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Medium
Did you know?
- Tiger's eye gets its golden stripes from quartz that replaced fibres of crocidolite, a blue asbestos mineral.
- The bright band of tiger's eye, called chatoyancy, shifts as the stone is turned, like the slit of a cat's eye.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q430007 · All stones · All entries