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Argyle diamond mine

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The Argyle Diamond Mine is a diamond mine located in the East Kimberley region in the remote north of Western Australia. [1]

52 relations: Alluvium, Argyle Airport, Argyle Library Egg, Argyle Pink Jubilee, Arkansas, Australian dollar, Australian Securities Exchange, Bravais lattice, Breccia, Carat (mass), Continental crust, Crater of Diamonds State Park, Darwin, Northern Territory, Diamond, Diatreme, Diavik Diamond Mine, Eclogite, Ekati Diamond Mine, Floodplain, Fluorescence, Garnet, Graphite, Hydrothermal circulation, Kaolinite, Kimberley (Western Australia), Kimberlite, Kitco, Kununurra, Western Australia, Lake Argyle, Lamproite, List of diamond mines, Maar, Material properties of diamond, Maureen Muggeridge, Mica, Murowa diamond mine, Nitrogen, Olivine, Open-pit mining, Ore, Perth, Pink diamond, Pyroxene, Regions of Western Australia, Rio Tinto Group, Sandvik, States and territories of Australia, Tonne, Ultraviolet, Volcanic pipe, ..., X-ray, Zeolite. Expand index (2 more) »

Alluvium

Alluvium (from the Latin alluvius, from alluere, "to wash against") is loose, unconsolidated (not cemented together into a solid rock) soil or sediments, which has been eroded, reshaped by water in some form, and redeposited in a non-marine setting.

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Argyle Airport

Argyle Airport is an airport at Lake Argyle, Western Australia.

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Argyle Library Egg

The Argyle Library Egg (also known as The Argyle Library Egg by Kutchinsky) is a jewelled egg made of gold and diamonds.

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Argyle Pink Jubilee

The Argyle Pink Jubilee is a rough pink diamond and the largest rough pink diamond unearthed in Australia.

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Arkansas

Arkansas is a state in the southeastern region of the United States, home to over 3 million people as of 2017.

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Australian dollar

The Australian dollar (sign: $; code: AUD) is the currency of the Commonwealth of Australia, including its external territories Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and Norfolk Island, as well as the independent Pacific Island states of Kiribati, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.

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Australian Securities Exchange

The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX, sometimes referred to outside Australia as the Sydney Stock Exchange) is Australia's primary securities exchange.

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Bravais lattice

In geometry and crystallography, a Bravais lattice, named after, is an infinite array of discrete points in three dimensional space generated by a set of discrete translation operations described by: where ni are any integers and ai are known as the primitive vectors which lie in different directions and span the lattice.

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Breccia

Breccia is a rock composed of broken fragments of minerals or rock cemented together by a fine-grained matrix that can be similar to or different from the composition of the fragments.

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Carat (mass)

The carat (ct) (not to be confused with the karat, sometimes spelled carat, a unit of purity of gold alloys), is a unit of mass equal to 200 mg (0.2 g; 0.007055 oz) and is used for measuring gemstones and pearls.

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Continental crust

Continental crust is the layer of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks that forms the continents and the areas of shallow seabed close to their shores, known as continental shelves.

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Crater of Diamonds State Park

Crater of Diamonds State Park is a Arkansas state park in Pike County, Arkansas, in the United States.

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Darwin, Northern Territory

Darwin is the capital city of the Northern Territory of Australia.

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Diamond

Diamond is a solid form of carbon with a diamond cubic crystal structure.

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Diatreme

A diatreme, sometimes known as a maar-diatreme volcano, is a volcanic pipe formed by a gaseous explosion.

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Diavik Diamond Mine

The Diavik Diamond Mine is a diamond mine in the North Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada, about northeast of Yellowknife.

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Eclogite

Eclogite is a mafic metamorphic rock.

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Ekati Diamond Mine

The Ekati Diamond Mine ("Ekati") is Canada's first surface and underground diamond mine.

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Floodplain

A floodplain or flood plain is an area of land adjacent to a stream or river which stretches from the banks of its channel to the base of the enclosing valley walls, and which experiences flooding during periods of high discharge.

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Fluorescence

Fluorescence is the emission of light by a substance that has absorbed light or other electromagnetic radiation.

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Garnet

Garnets are a group of silicate minerals that have been used since the Bronze Age as gemstones and abrasives.

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Graphite

Graphite, archaically referred to as plumbago, is a crystalline allotrope of carbon, a semimetal, a native element mineral, and a form of coal.

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Hydrothermal circulation

Hydrothermal circulation in its most general sense is the circulation of hot water (Ancient Greek ὕδωρ, water,Liddell, H.G. & Scott, R. (1940). A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford: Clarendon Press. and θέρμη, heat). Hydrothermal circulation occurs most often in the vicinity of sources of heat within the Earth's crust.

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Kaolinite

Kaolinite is a clay mineral, part of the group of industrial minerals, with the chemical composition Al2Si2O5(OH)4.

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Kimberley (Western Australia)

The Kimberley is the northernmost of the nine regions of Western Australia.

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Kimberlite

Kimberlite is an igneous rock, which sometimes contains diamonds.

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Kitco

Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells physical precious metals such as gold, platinum, palladium, and silver.

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Kununurra, Western Australia

Kununurra is a town in far northern Western Australia located at the eastern extremity of the Kimberley Region approximately from the border with the Northern Territory.

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Lake Argyle

Lake Argyle is Western Australia's largest and Australia's second largest freshwater man-made reservoir by volume.

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Lamproite

Lamproite is an ultrapotassic mantle-derived volcanic or subvolcanic rock.

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List of diamond mines

There are a limited number of commercially aviable diamond mines currently operating in the world, with the 50 largest mines accounting for approximately 90% of global supply.

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Maar

A maar is a broad, low-relief volcanic crater caused by a phreatomagmatic eruption (an explosion which occurs when groundwater comes into contact with hot lava or magma).

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Material properties of diamond

Diamond is the allotrope of carbon in which the carbon atoms are arranged in the specific type of cubic lattice called diamond cubic.

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Maureen Muggeridge

Maureen Muggeridge (13 August 1948 – 7 October 2010) was a niece of Malcolm Muggeridge but made her name in a very different field.

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Mica

The mica group of sheet silicate (phyllosilicate) minerals includes several closely related materials having nearly perfect basal cleavage.

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Murowa diamond mine

The Murowa diamond mine is a diamond mine located in Mazvihwa, south central Zimbabwe, about 40 kilometres from the asbestos mining town of Zvishavane in the Midlands province.

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Nitrogen

Nitrogen is a chemical element with symbol N and atomic number 7.

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Olivine

The mineral olivine is a magnesium iron silicate with the formula (Mg2+, Fe2+)2SiO4.

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Open-pit mining

Open-pit, open-cast or open cut mining is a surface mining technique of extracting rock or minerals from the earth by their removal from an open pit or borrow.

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Ore

An ore is an occurrence of rock or sediment that contains sufficient minerals with economically important elements, typically metals, that can be economically extracted from the deposit.

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Perth

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia.

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Pink diamond

Pink diamond is a type of diamond which has pink color.

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Pyroxene

The pyroxenes (commonly abbreviated to Px) are a group of important rock-forming inosilicate minerals found in many igneous and metamorphic rocks.

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Regions of Western Australia

Western Australia is divided into regions according to a number of systems.

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Rio Tinto Group

Rio Tinto Group is an Australian-British multinational and one of the world's largest metals and mining corporations.

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Sandvik

Sandvik is a global company founded in 1862 by Göran Fredrik Göransson in Sandviken, Sweden.

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States and territories of Australia

Australia (officially known as the Commonwealth of Australia) is a federation of six states, together with ten federal territories.

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Tonne

The tonne (Non-SI unit, symbol: t), commonly referred to as the metric ton in the United States, is a non-SI metric unit of mass equal to 1,000 kilograms;.

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Ultraviolet

Ultraviolet (UV) is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength from 10 nm to 400 nm, shorter than that of visible light but longer than X-rays.

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Volcanic pipe

Volcanic pipes are subterranean geological structures formed by the violent, supersonic eruption of deep-origin volcanoes.

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X-ray

X-rays make up X-radiation, a form of electromagnetic radiation.

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Zeolite

Zeolites are microporous, aluminosilicate minerals commonly used as commercial adsorbents and catalysts.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyle_diamond_mine

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