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The Making of Tiger’s Eye

Form the stone. Collect the tokens. Keep the piece.

  1. 1Seed
  2. 2Force
  3. 3Time
  4. 4Light

Deep in banded ironstone, tiger’s eye starts as something else. Drag the seed mineral into the vessel.

Drag the correct specimen

The blue fibres are set. Drag the force that replaces them, atom by atom.

Drag the correct specimen

Compress the ages. Hold the dial — watch blue crocidolite turn to golden quartz, fibre for fibre.

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The fibres keep their parallel lines — that preserved structure is what catches the light.

It’s formed. Aligned fibres bend light into one moving band. Tilt to center the cat’s eye.

Cat’s eye centered — token earned

Tilt

Formation Tokens

Crocidolite
Silica
Deep Time
Chatoyancy

Crocidolite → Silica replacement → Tiger’s Eye → Chatoyancy