Tiger iron is a mineral mixture consisting of the following components:
Brown jasper
Shiny golden tiger's eye and
black, shiny metallic veins of magnetite.
These iron banded ores erupted from submarine volcanoes more than 2 BILLION years ago. The other components were formed more than a MILLION years LATER.
The piece comes from the BANDET IRON MINE in TRANSVAAL - SOUTH AFRICA
Weight: 0.72 kilogram Dimensions: 11 x 7 x 4 cm