The Incredible Impact of the Blue Tiger Eye

The blue tiger eye gemstone is a bluish-green to bluish-grey stone that is made up of microcrystalline quartz, or in other words, chalcedony. But it is different from most of the chalcedonies – the blue tiger eye is gemologically classified as a rock and not a mineral. Blue Tiger Eye is created in nature as a result of pseudomorphosis. What is pseudomorphosis? Well, it is a stone replacing a part of another mineral over a long period of time. When microcrystalline quartz goes through pseudomorphosis, blue tiger eye is created. Basically, in this process, the mineral crocidolite slowly transforms into Hawk’s eye over a long period of time. The reason why the blue tiger eye stone is such a captivating stone is because it displays a beautiful optical effect, chatoyancy, because of which the stone resembles the eye of a hawk which has a focused and sharp gaze.