What is the tiger eye stone? What is Tiger Eye Stone?
The appearance of the Tiger Eye stone is mostly yellowish brown, which is a kind of gemstone with the effect of cat eyes, also called tiger eye stone! Like the yellow, blue, red and other tiger eye stones on the market are all kinds of tiger eye stone... More details of the tiger eye stone will follow the Xiaobian together to understand!
What is the tiger eye stone
Tiger's eye, or tiger's eye stone, is a gemstone with a cat's eye effect. It is mostly yellowish brown with a silky light in the gem. Tiger eye stone is one of the varieties of quartz, which can be made by using pseudo-crystals made of blue asbestos fiber. The blue variant produced by the unfinished process of silicidation is called "eagle eye". Generally, the black and yellow color tone, like the tiger's texture, also has blue, yellow and black, called blue opal, secret key array purification, opal often called "noble gem". Together with the stone, it belongs to one of the world's five precious high-end gemstones. Opal is mainly produced in gas-forming hydrothermal deposits and pegmatite veins. Tiger eye stone is a variant of wood stone. The quartz fiber of the tiger's eye is shorter than the wood, and the direction is irregular, and it is arranged in any direction like the marking. The world's largest tiger eye and wood metamorphic deposits are located in Transvaal, South Africa. In addition, Brazil and China's Henan are produced. The price is also determined by the color. The general surface is flawless, the eyeliner is clear and the center is in the middle.
Let's take a look at the characteristics of the tiger's eye stone and the classification of the tiger's eye stone to learn more about what is the tiger eye stone:
1. Characteristics of tiger eye stone
The tiger's eye is often treated with a convex round gemstone cutting method. This treatment method can best highlight the cat's eye of the tiger eye itself.
The tiger eye stone can turn red after micro-heat processing. The beautiful honey-colored tiger eye has the opportunity to pretend to be another higher-value opal "chrysoberyl", but the effect is usually not satisfactory. Gemstones made from rayon glass are common replacement stones for tiger eye, and this fiberglass can also produce gemstones in many colors.
There is also a rock associated with the tiger's eye stone, called the iron tiger eye. Iron Tiger Eye is an ore that is made of natural tiger eye, Red Jasper and black hematite. Its color and light contrast are very gorgeous, often made into jewelry, high-priced decorations, rosary and gemstones embedded in the handle. Most of the iron tiger eye and tiger eye stone are collected from South Africa and Western Australia. The main component is silica, the density is about 2.64 to 2.71, and the quartz color is composed of the variant blue asbestos and acidified iron. The famous sources of tiger eye are mainly from the United States, South Africa, Canada, China, Brazil, Namibia, India and Myanmar.
2, tiger eye stone classification
According to its color can be divided into four types:
Yellow tiger eye stone
That is, the most common "tiger eye stone" or "tiger eye stone", the lens of the tiger eye stone is pulsed or of different sizes, which is produced in the middle or both sides of the fracture zone, and the ore is fine grained or heterogeneous structure or fibrous structure. , block structure, blue asbestos distribution is vertical, horizontal, oblique and clustered blue asbestos fibers, the direction is different, variegated distribution. Due to the later limonite mineralization, the tiger eye stone is golden yellow or yellowish brown, strong silky luster or diamond luster, slightly transparent or translucent, hardness of 7 degrees or more, with strong cat eye effect, forming a band-like "live" Light" or "light". The yellow tiger eye stone is as arrogant as the cat's eye, and it radiates a bright light, which makes people add courage and confidence, bravely struggles and creates more wealth. Some people also call the tiger eye stone a Wangfu stone, bringing good luck and wealth to their husband. The noble and domineering tiger eye bracelet reflects the radiance of a cat-like eye, inspiring courage, bringing confidence, firm belief, and bravery.
Blue tiger eye stone
This is the "Hawk-eye", the chemical formula (SiO2). It has a vein shape and a partial lens shape. The pulse width is 2 to 5 cm, the color is single, the blue asbestos is irregularly arranged, and the small cracks develop. The degree of silicidation is relatively low, and hard and brittle blue asbestos fibers are visible. The ore is in the form of fine grain structure, fibrous structure, massive, honeycomb-like, strip-like or hull-like structure, strong silky luster, slightly transparent or semi-transparent. Transparent, with a light or ribbon "live light".
Red tiger eye
The lens bodies of different sizes are produced in the blue asbestos-containing cracks, the color is relatively simple, and the iron oxide film is locally seen; the blue asbestos fibers are arranged in a regular or relatively regular manner, and have a fine-grained fibrous structure, dense, massive structure, and strong silk Gloss, obvious banded light. The red tiger stone with good texture sparkles with blush at different angles.
Multicolor tiger eye stone
Also known as "Zebra Tiger Eye Stone" or "Zebra Tiger Eye Stone", located in the middle or both sides of the broken alteration zone, veined in the blue asbestos vein or quartz vein, the color is red, blue, yellow, milky white, etc. The blue asbestos fibers are arranged in an irregular direction.
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