Tiger Eye is a quartz replacement of crocidolite (gold asbestos). It exhibits an optical quality called chatoyancy due to the reflection of light by the fibrous structure. This is the technical name for the shimmer that looks like a tiger’s eye.

Tiger Eye producing soothing vibrations, generating a calmness to unsettled turmoil.  It can be used to enhance psychic abilities and can assist in the gentle attunement of the third-eye activity – this stone being best adapted to “earthy” people.