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Tiger’s eye is a translucent variety of quartz, with a golden yellow colour. It exhibits a characteristic linear iridescence like a moving iridescence. These lines are golden and brown and their composition is fibrous granulite. This very characteristic visual phenomenon is known by the French word chatoyancy, which in Greek means “cat’s eye”. Tiger’s eye is found in the USA, South Africa, Namibia, Brazil. A quality of tiger’s eye in a darker color is called “hawk’s eye” where it is a deep blue color, and there is also “bull’s eye” , which is deep red.