Tiger Stone

Tiger Stone is a beautiful gemstone with bands of yellow and gold all over the stone. It is a variety of chatoyant gemstone with golden or brown color. The Tiger Stone is basically cut or shapes in cabochon style with the intent of displaying its chatoyant characteristic.

The gemstone is revered as being the “pseudomorph” of quartz. A pseudomorph is a sort of mineral which transfers completely from one mineral to another. The tiger eye gemstone appears similar to Hawkeye and Pietersite gemstone due to all of these gemstones belong to same chatoyancy.

The tiger eye stone is famous for its brilliant golden or brown color. The golden or red color is displayed by this gemstone due to pseudomorph procedure. In the following process if a stone contains more iron oxide it displays the brown color. On the other hand, a material which contains less iron oxide looks golden or blue color.

HOW TO IDENTIFY A TIGER EYE GEMSTONE:

A tiger eye gemstone is being identified by examining its color and durability largely. The most identical color of tiger eye stone is golden or brown which is achieved due to silicon dioxide composition. Moreover, the durability of the stone range from 6.5 to 7.0.

Thus, from durability, we can deduce whether tiger eye gemstone is real or fake. Besides these methods to identify a real tiger eye stone, a person can also distinguish between hawk eye and tiger by observing the color of the stone. If a stone looks brown and contains less iron than it is a tiger eye stone.

ORIGIN OF TIGER EYE GEMSTONE:

The tiger eye gemstone is found in almost all regions of the world. However, majorly this stone is being captured from Thailand and South Africa. The quality of the Thailand tiger eye and South African tiger eye is exceptional. Besides, these both regions the tiger eye stone can be aggregated from India, Australia, Brazil, China, Spain.

BENEFITS OF WEARING TIGER EYE GEMSTONE:

The tiger eye stone contains mystical powers that aid in preventing a person from many serious diseases and proves auspicious. The tiger eye gemstone with its enriching healing properties will remove all fear from the mind and bless a person with physical strength.

The tiger eye stone also enhances the concentration and intellectual power of a person. The stone also proves identical to solve all eye-related problems and get rid-off of back pain and stiff neck. The tiger eye gemstone is not being adopted in recent times; however, the stone was widely used in ancient times. Acute evidence has been found which indicates its importance in the past. It was said that wearing tiger eyes would enhance their physical strength.