Tiger's eye (quartz variety), Brazil

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Locality: Brazil

Size: 6 cm x 4 cm x 4 cm

Formula: SiO2

Description: Common name for a variety of Quartz which is chatoyant because of subparallel intergrowth of quartz crystals and altered amphibole fibres that mostly turned into limonite.

Website: http://geology.uaic.ro/muzee/mineralogie/

Concept & 3D-modelling by dr. Andrei Ionut APOPEI