Polished Tiger Iron slab TI375

TI375  Tiger Iron slab, polished on one side.

Large, museum quality geological specimen displaying folding !

Dimensions at widest points approximately 330 mm  x 260 mm x 18.5 mm thick.

Weighs: 4,274 grams

From the Cleaverville Formation, Ord Ranges near Port Hedland, Western Australia. Age is over 3 billion years.

Tiger iron is a banded iron formation (BIF) or jaspilite that has alternating layers of black and brown hematite/magnetite, red jasper and chatoyant golden tiger eye.