Tigers Eye Palm Stone

Tiger Eye begins as crocidolite, a fibrous blue-grey mineral, which is slowly dissolved and replaced by silica while its parallel fiber structure stays intact. Light reflecting along those preserved fibers creates chatoyancy, the shifting golden band that gives the stone its living, eye-like sheen. Most gem-quality material is mined in South Africa and Western Australia.

Tiger Eye is a chatoyant variety of quartz (silicon dioxide) formed by the silicification of fibrous crocidolite. Iron oxides staining the silica produce its golden-brown color, while the preserved alignment of the original fibers gives it a silky luster and the mobile cat's-eye reflection. It rates about 6.5 to 7 on the Mohs scale.

Roman soldiers carried Tiger Eye into battle, trusting its banded eye to watch over them and turn aside the weapons and ill intent of their enemies., In ancient Egypt the stone was set into the eyes of deity statues, lending them the look of divine vision and unwavering protection., and Across many cultures it was worn as an all-seeing eye, a talisman against curses and envy said to grant the wearer nerve under pressure.