News Headline
Indigenous rights and Argyle diamonds: good intentions, bad policy and the burden of history
Source
The Mandarin
Publication Date
2021-05-11
The world-famous Argyle diamond mine, in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia, was the dividend from a painstaking search for tiny mineral clues. Led by geologist Ewen Tyler, the search scrutinised 190,000 square kilometres of country, an area almost as large as Great Britain. In 1972, the searchers found their first diamond. It was small – only 0.008 of a carat – and it had been collected on a reserve owned by Indigenous Australians.