96 g Tiger Iron Eye – golden hue, gold gloss & silver shimmer – 4.9 x 3.5 x 3.2 cm Skull- 96 g
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Tiger Iron Eye meteorite in skull form from Australia (Western Australia, Precambrian banded iron formation), weighing 96 g and measuring 4.9 × 3.5 × 3.2 cm.
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In 1967, the young biologist Lynn Margulis proposed an idea that her field deemed ridiculous. The mitochondria, the power plants of our cells, had once been free-living bacteria. Long ago a larger cell swallowed them, but instead of being digested, they remained and became a part of her. About fifteen journals rejected her paper before it could be published. Today, the endosymbiotic theory is considered established. To this day, mitochondria carry their own genetic material inside them, a memory of the free life they once led.
One side of this skull seems to tell exactly that. In bright orange and brown, ring after ring wraps around a black-bordered nucleus, like a cell within a cell. The other side belongs entirely to light: an extremely changeable chatoyance that flashes silver or gold depending on the angle.
Stone and mitochondrion even share a backstory. Tiger Iron formed in Precambrian banded iron formations. These deposits became possible only when early microbes released oxygen into the sea, causing the dissolved iron to precipitate layer by layer. On this very oxygen rests what mitochondria still do in every one of our cells today: they extract energy from it.
Material: Tiger Iron (Tiger Iron Eye) – composite of tiger’s eye, hematite, and jasper
Origin: Precambrian banded iron formation (Western Australia)
Dimensions: 4.9 x 3.5 x 3.2 cm
Weight: 96 g
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Seller's Story
Ich lasse mich immer wieder von der Schönheit der Natur überraschen und berühren. Mineralien und Edelsteine empfinde ich als Verkörperung jener Perfektion und Harmonie, die allem Sein zugrunde liegt. In ihnen verdichtet sich die Essenz der Erde – kristallisiert für die Ewigkeit und doch in jedem Stück einzigartig.
Jedes Mineral, das ich anbiete, ist von mir persönlich ausgewählt. Nicht nach bloßem Glanz, sondern nach dem Gefühl von Wahrhaftigkeit, das es in mir hervorruft. So findet nur das seinen Weg in meine Hände – und weiter in Ihre –, was ich selbst als würdig empfinde, in seiner Schönheit weitergereicht zu werden.
In meinem Handeln leiten mich Ehrlichkeit, Sorgfalt und die Freude am Teilen dieser Schätze. Ich verstehe mich dabei weniger als Händler, sondern vielmehr als Vermittler zwischen der Natur und den Menschen, die bereit sind, ihre Geschenke mit Achtsamkeit anzunehmen.
In 1967, the young biologist Lynn Margulis proposed an idea that her field deemed ridiculous. The mitochondria, the power plants of our cells, had once been free-living bacteria. Long ago a larger cell swallowed them, but instead of being digested, they remained and became a part of her. About fifteen journals rejected her paper before it could be published. Today, the endosymbiotic theory is considered established. To this day, mitochondria carry their own genetic material inside them, a memory of the free life they once led.
One side of this skull seems to tell exactly that. In bright orange and brown, ring after ring wraps around a black-bordered nucleus, like a cell within a cell. The other side belongs entirely to light: an extremely changeable chatoyance that flashes silver or gold depending on the angle.
Stone and mitochondrion even share a backstory. Tiger Iron formed in Precambrian banded iron formations. These deposits became possible only when early microbes released oxygen into the sea, causing the dissolved iron to precipitate layer by layer. On this very oxygen rests what mitochondria still do in every one of our cells today: they extract energy from it.
Material: Tiger Iron (Tiger Iron Eye) – composite of tiger’s eye, hematite, and jasper
Origin: Precambrian banded iron formation (Western Australia)
Dimensions: 4.9 x 3.5 x 3.2 cm
Weight: 96 g
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Seller's Story
Ich lasse mich immer wieder von der Schönheit der Natur überraschen und berühren. Mineralien und Edelsteine empfinde ich als Verkörperung jener Perfektion und Harmonie, die allem Sein zugrunde liegt. In ihnen verdichtet sich die Essenz der Erde – kristallisiert für die Ewigkeit und doch in jedem Stück einzigartig.
Jedes Mineral, das ich anbiete, ist von mir persönlich ausgewählt. Nicht nach bloßem Glanz, sondern nach dem Gefühl von Wahrhaftigkeit, das es in mir hervorruft. So findet nur das seinen Weg in meine Hände – und weiter in Ihre –, was ich selbst als würdig empfinde, in seiner Schönheit weitergereicht zu werden.
In meinem Handeln leiten mich Ehrlichkeit, Sorgfalt und die Freude am Teilen dieser Schätze. Ich verstehe mich dabei weniger als Händler, sondern vielmehr als Vermittler zwischen der Natur und den Menschen, die bereit sind, ihre Geschenke mit Achtsamkeit anzunehmen.
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96 g Tiger Iron Eye – golden hue, gold gloss & silver shimmer – 4.9 x 3.5 x 3.2 cm
Mineral form
Skull
Weight
96 g
Country of origin
Australia
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