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Tiger's Eye, Riebeckite Group (Var: Crocidolite), Hematite

Locality: Atikokan, Hutchinson Township, Rainy River District, Ontario, Canada

Note: The mineral species Tiger's Eye is not listed in our database for this locality. This specimen may be misidentified or the mindat list of minerals at this locality may be incomplete.

11.7 x 9.4 x 8.8 cm. A really strange, very showy double pseudomorph cabinet specimen from Ontario. This unique, highly lustrous, mushroom-shaped pseudo is quartz variety classically banded Tiger Eye after crocidolite (a fibrous asbestos mineral) after classic, hematite kidney ore. The "mushroom" cap of pseudomorphed hematite kidney ore sits atop the stem of beautiful, banded, fibrous, Tiger Eye. I have never seen anything quite like it. Not even another from the same place. It strikes me as a real oddity.

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Photo added: 27th Feb 2009

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