Discovery of the Argyle Diamond Mine in Australia

Diamonds had been recovered in the Pilbara region as far back as the 1890s but the primary source of any of these diamond finds had never been located.

The Argyle diamond story has its origins in the early 1970s, when one of the world's most significant find of diamonds was made at Smoke Creek in the remote north of Western Australia, over 2000 kilometres from Perth.

For decades, geologists had known that a major source of diamonds existed in Australia, but it was only in the early 1970s that their work had identified the Kimberley region as being the most likely location. A joint venture was formed, and geologists spent the next seven years searching the region to discover the Argyle diamond deposit.

In 1977, a number of diamond-bearing kimberlite pipes were discovered in Ellendale, located near Derby. Unfortunately, on evaluation the Ellendale Prospect was shown to be uneconomical.

The discovery of Argyle was made while working in Smoke Creek near Lake Argyle. Geologists found several stones in the creek bed and back tracked along the course finding more diamonds as they went until they climbed high into the range. Finally, on October 2 1979, the geologists were literally standing on top of the richest diamond deposit in the world, the Argyle diamond pipe. They had discovered the Argyle Diamond pipe!

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