Argyle: The Impossible Story of Australian Diamonds

Stuart Kells

Argyle: The Impossible Story of Australian Diamonds
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Melbourne University Press
Country
Australia
Published
2 March 2021
Pages
320
ISBN
9780522877250

Argyle: The Impossible Story of Australian Diamonds

Stuart Kells

This is the story of the intrepid Australian geologists who discovered pink diamonds in the Kimberley.

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 richest source of rare pink diamonds.

Based on in-depth research and interviews - including with Alan King Jones, Bill Leslie and ‘the father of Australian diamonds’, Ewen Tyler - Argyle- The Impossible Story of Australian Diamonds details the almost overwhelming challenges with realising a diamond mining venture in Australia, shows how these obstacles were overcome, and explores the mine’s impact and legacy.

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