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MD-214889
Tiger'S Eye, Riebeckite (Var: Crocidolite), Hematite
Atikokan, Hutchinson Township, Rainy River District, Ontario, Canada
Cabinet, 11.7 x 9.4 x 8.8 cm
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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 kindey ore. The "mushroom" cap of pseudomorphed hematite kindey 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.