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Tiger’s Eye is the Planetary stone for Gemini (May 21-Jun. 20) and the accepted gem for the ninth wedding anniversary.
Tiger’s eye (tigers eye, tiger eye, tiger iron) is a member of the quartz group of chalcedonies. It is one of the chatoyant gemstones. Chatoyancy exhibits a changeable silky luster as light is reflected within the […]

Brown Tiger’s Eye
Tiger’s Eye is a brown quartz silicon dioxide with lustrous yellow and brown parallel fibres. The yellow-gold colours are due to iron oxides. Tiger’s Eye has the property of chatoyancy, which means that it glitters with a small ray of light on the surface, much like the eyes of a cat. There largest […]

Stone’s names are Tiger eye, also spelled tiger’s-eye and tigereye. Tiger eye is also called crocidolite cat’s-eye or African cat’s-eye. Tiger eye color has a rich yellow and golden brown stripes, with a fine golden lustre when polished.
Tiger eye is quartz that contains oriented fibres of crocidolite that have been replaced by silica. Tiger eye is displaying […]

White and decent black citizens of Southern Rhodesia fought for longer than 10 years to maintain law and order and economic values in that blessed land.
After brutal interference by criminals of the Zanu Party, Robert Mugabe was acknowledged as the President of Zimbabwe.
He proceeded immediately to destroy the economy and within few short years he […]

Roman soldiers were holding a piece of Tiger’s Eye as a good luck omen.
I was amused and surprised to read on several websites that the Romans, longer than 2,000 years ago considered Tiger’s Eye to bring good luck and took to wearing some Tiger’s Eye as amulets.
To the best of my knowledge, Tiger’s Eye occurs […]

In South Africa one is not allowed to hold nor transport rough gold.
It was a professional anecdote circulating in South Africa during the 60-80th:
It was saying that should one kill a person in the middle of the town square with many witnesses around, a good lawyer could debate and get a ‘non guilty’ verdict.
But when […]

Back in 1970’s we were mining Tiger’s Eye on one of my farms in the Niekerkshoop District, the Karoo Desert in the Cape Province of South Africa.
My Tiger’s Eye mining rights covered the whole extend of that farm, some 2,000 hectares (5,000 acres).
A mining team was working a Tiger’s Eye vein on top of a […]

Our research focuses on tiger eye as a gemstone.  The polished tiger’s eye gemstoneTiger’s eye (also Tigers eye, Tiger eye) is a chatoyant gemstone that is usually golden- yellow- to red-brown, with a silky luster. It is a fibrous silicified crocidolite, one example of pseudomorphous replacement. An incompletely silicified blue variant is called Hawk’s eye. […]

In 1866, a diamond was found in the North Western Territory of the Cape Province of South Africa. By 1870, there was a ‘diamond rush’ with thousands of people trying to reach the newly opened Kimberley Diamond Mines.
There were two “trading posts” in between the village of Prieska and Kimberley, namely Niekerkshoop and Grieqwa Town.
Travelers […]

In London in the mid-1870s, 25 shillings–about $85 in today’s terms–went a long way. You could buy 7 grams of gold, 40 liters of rum, or about a half kilogram of opium. Where you couldn’t get a bargain, however, was the jewelry store. That same amount of money bought just 1 carat, or 0.2 gram, […]