
Happily Ever After
They are a fluke of nature and the ultimate in luxury, made in Australia. Discovered in a dusty creek bed in WA, today Argyle diamonds can be found every place diamonds are loved – sparkling in jewellery store windows to royal palaces to weddings to prized collections. Rio Tinto geologist Murray says while it’s hard enough to find a diamond deposit, getting a treasure trove of pink, red, blue, violet, champagne and cognac diamonds is “really something else”. “What we discovered at Argyle was an entirely new specimen of diamond,” he said. “It changed diamond markets forever and showed coloured gems in a whole new light – not just the famous Argyle pinks, which represented less than 1% of production,…