Argyle: The Impossible Story of Australian Diamonds; A Book released on Argyle Mine This is the story of the intrepid Australian geologists who
discovered pink diamonds in the Kimberley By: Diamond World News Service
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The remote Kimberley region of Western Australia has a rich history and unique geography. In the 1960s De Beers, the world’s largest diamond company, sent gem-hunters to the area but they came away empty-handed. It was a vast region to survey, and they’d overlooked something vital.
A few years later, a team of Australian geologists with a tiny budget searched for even tinier mineral clues. Those clues led them to the earth’s largest diamond deposit and the world’s largest and richest source of coloured diamonds including the very rare pink diamonds. Based on in-d