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adovbs

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Pinkish red shading to gold tiger eye with hematite banding
« on: February 16, 2015, 07:48:30 PM »
Currently on the lapidary wheel - my first fully domed cab!  It's from a wonderful slab of pinkish red tiger eye that shades to rich gold on one end, with nicely defined blue-grey hematite banding.  Cuts and shapes like a dream, a really nice slab. 

This isn't polished, nor is is quite ready for the polishing wheel, but it's pretty close.  Maybe one more trip to the fine grinding wheel in the morning and then I can begin. 

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Re: Pinkish red shading to gold tiger eye with hematite banding
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2015, 07:59:13 PM »
thats actually tiger iron rather than tiger eye.
Cool cab!
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Re: Pinkish red shading to gold tiger eye with hematite banding
« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2015, 08:01:21 PM »
Quote from: Phishisgroovin on February 16, 2015, 07:59:13 PM
thats actually tiger iron rather than tiger eye.
Cool cab!

Oh, it is?  Well, that's cool, thanks!  The seller had it listed as Tiger Eye, so I just assumed that's what it was.  Now I guess I need to go look it up and see how to tell them apart for next time.  :-)
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Re: Pinkish red shading to gold tiger eye with hematite banding
« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2015, 08:27:15 PM »
tiger eye is symetrical in apperance where tiger iron is swirled with thicker hematite inclusions.
I like tiger iron better since i like lines and all.
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Re: Pinkish red shading to gold tiger eye with hematite banding
« Reply #4 on: February 16, 2015, 09:32:40 PM »
I'm a huge fan of Tiger Iron myself.
I have a cab of it that I've been sitting on for a few years now, planning out something to make for myself with it and a tigereye bead I got from Sara that has a Chinese Dragon in gold leaf carved into it!   :headbang:
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Re: Pinkish red shading to gold tiger eye with hematite banding
« Reply #5 on: February 17, 2015, 03:26:22 PM »
Me too I like tiger iron but I like the eyes too:)
I got one of those beads hanging on my ceiling fan chain Amanda:) LOL I didn't know what else to do with it. I need your inspiration Lady:)
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Re: Pinkish red shading to gold tiger eye with hematite banding
« Reply #6 on: February 17, 2015, 07:53:12 PM »
Quote from: ScarlettOSara on February 17, 2015, 03:26:22 PM
Me too I like tiger iron but I like the eyes too:)
I got one of those beads hanging on my ceiling fan chain Amanda:) LOL I didn't know what else to do with it. I need your inspiration Lady:)

Right now my Inspiration is on a temporary vacation.  It will be back soon.  Lack of sleep and to many things going on kind of dulls the creative neural synapses...
But don't worry, it will surface again.   :headbang:
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Re: Pinkish red shading to gold tiger eye with hematite banding
« Reply #7 on: March 07, 2015, 04:26:23 PM »
This is a delicious cab!  Yum!!!!!

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Re: Pinkish red shading to gold tiger eye with hematite banding
« Reply #8 on: March 07, 2015, 06:27:36 PM »
The Aussies always like to show off their tiger iron at Quartzsite.
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Re: Pinkish red shading to gold tiger eye with hematite banding
« Reply #9 on: March 08, 2015, 03:18:36 PM »
I wonder if you got that pic before or after I drooled all over it...
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Re: Pinkish red shading to gold tiger eye with hematite banding
« Reply #10 on: March 08, 2015, 04:12:32 PM »
LOL@ GINA!!!   :LOLOL: :LOLOL:
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Re: Pinkish red shading to gold tiger eye with hematite banding
« Reply #11 on: March 13, 2015, 07:06:35 PM »
Soooooooooo...   I have a question, and tagging it onto this thread seemed the best place for it.    I have a large hunk of Marra Mamba, but I'm curious.   From all I've read real Marra Mamba is pretty much mined out, so if you get any you are getting old stock.   Ok, I can understand that.   And when I see Marra Mamba cabs I recognize them because they are far beyond anything you see in tiger eye.  But how do you  KNOW that what you have is Marra Mamba rather than an odd or interesting piece of tiger eye or tiger iron?  What is it, specifically, that makes it different?      And thanks, btw, it is so nice to know that y'all really do know this mess!!!   :glasses9:
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Re: Pinkish red shading to gold tiger eye with hematite banding
« Reply #12 on: March 13, 2015, 07:24:44 PM »
Both Brazil and Australia have provided great hematite and jasper rough and as they have the biggest iron mines in the world we should eventually see new rough . China has vastly overproduced steel so there is an expectation that they will be importing much less iron ore which will greatly slow mining  of all iron ore.
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Re: Pinkish red shading to gold tiger eye with hematite banding
« Reply #13 on: March 13, 2015, 07:57:13 PM »
So I go to Google, the fountain of all things internet, and at first I was like, there is Marra Momba stuff everywhere- clearly this has not been mined out...

Then I found this page.  It might answer your question, it might not:

http://www.ebay.com/gds/Tiger-eye-Pietersite-Marra-Mamba-Binghamite-information-/10000000001865642/g.html

Oh and check this out- if this is the real deal, you can see the comparison from one material to the other.  I have purchased from this place before but not this material.
http://www.greatrough.com/rough_tigereye.shtml
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Re: Pinkish red shading to gold tiger eye with hematite banding
« Reply #14 on: March 13, 2015, 09:02:32 PM »
I don't mean to start anything but I have seen other cabs being sold as a combo of tiger eye and hematite and looking at this one I really think it is very probably just that, it really doesn't look like the tiger iron shown to me anyway, but I may be all wet.
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