The Argyle Diamonds pink diamond collection

Collection Highlights | Updated 1 week ago

This pear-shaped pink diamond, weighing 0.58 carats, is the largest polished diamond in the Argyle Diamonds display collection held at the Western Australian Museum.

Through the generosity of Argyle Diamonds, an important part of Australia's rich mineral heritage has been preserved in an Australian public institution for the benefit of future generations.

Initially, in 2003 Argyle Diamonds donated several hundred pink diamonds to the mineralogical collection of the Western Australian Museum. This donation comprised twenty-eight parcels of faceted pink and other coloured stones from the Argyle (AK1) mine in the Kimberley of Western Australia.

Then in 2020, as the Argyle mine was closing down, Argyle Diamonds made a further donation of ~3,300 carats of rough and polished diamonds to the Museum. This included the full colour range of diamonds from the mine, along with a representative ‘run of mine’ sample of diamond production.

Overall, the Argyle Diamonds collection represents the largest of its kind in any public museum in Australia.

The colours in Argyle diamonds come from distortions in their crystal structure caused by pressure deep in the Earth prior to their transport to the surface. 

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