Tiger Eye Crystal Egg star The animals on our farm

The animals on our farm also have a Facebook and Instagram

and even a little direct sun

These brilliant stones are from Madagascar and are often referred to also

called vesicles

which is known for its translucent to opaque appearance and sparkling aventurescence effect

Tiger Eye Crystal Egg star The animals on our farmIn the late 1800s, geologists thought that tiger's eye and the related blue green stone, hawk's eye, were quartz replacements of crocidolite a blue form of asbestos. They believed that quartz replaced most of the crocidolite, and the remaining asbestos provided the bluish color. Tiger's eye is formed when parallel veins of crocidolite (blue asbestos) fibres are first altered to iron oxides and then replaced by silica. As a result it is more opaque,