Tiger eye – offers courage, energy, and luck.

Tiger eye, also spelled tiger’s-eye and tigereye.
Tiger eye is also called crocidolite cat’s-eye or African cat’s-eye. Color: Tiger eye 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Tiger eye is quartz that contains oriented fibres of crocidolite that have been replaced by silica.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 chatoyancy (a vertical luminescent band like that of a cat’s eye) . Tiger eye typically has lustrous alternating yellow or brown bands.

The name’s origin: Tiger eye with its bands resembles an eye of tiger, so it is received its name due to this similarity.

Have you ever seen a real Tiger’s eye?   Here is a photo of one from National Geographic, compare it with the man’s ring beside it.

Wild Tiger Eye

Tiger's Eye Ring

Tiger’s eye is brown quartz silicon dioxide, having yellow and brown parallel fibers and glitters with a small ray of light on the surface.  Iron oxide gives the stone it’s yellow gold color.  The best Tiger’s eye gemstones come from South Africa,  but it is also found in several other countries as well.

Tiger’s eye is the anniversary stone for the 9th year of marriage and is the astrological sign for Capricorn.

It is a very popular gemstone and is said to instill confidence in people, helping them obtain their goals. It is used for insight,  focus and clear thinking. It is considered to be very lucky.
Wearing a Tiger’s eye can be beneficial to health and spiritual well being.  In ancient war time Roman soldiers wore it , engraved with symbols, to protect them during battle.