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Color: Golden yellow to a golden brown
Treatment: Reddish-brown color produced by heating the stone.
Often bleached to lighten its color, commonly dyed .
Deposits: South Africa, Australia, Burma, California.
Cabochon (rounded top) gemstones display a cat's eye effect.
Talismanic Use: In early history Roman solders wore tiger's eye
engraved with symbols to protect themselves from danger.
Moh's Harness: 7
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