{"id":1151047,"date":"2019-11-21T08:15:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T14:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1007219"},"modified":"2019-11-21T08:15:35","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T14:15:35","slug":"pink-diamonds-deliver-strong-results-for-rio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1151047","title":{"rendered":"Pink diamonds deliver strong results for Rio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rio Tinto (ASX, LON: RIO) announced that its 2019 Argyle Pink Diamonds Tender collection of 64 rare pink and red diamonds saw double-digit growth in the number of bids, with successful bidders hailing from nine countries.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='d-flex justify-content-center'>\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0'><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0');});<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignright\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>The stones in the 2019 Argyle Pink Diamonds Tender were showcased in Perth, Hong Kong and New York<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The rocks were mined from the company&#8217;s Argyle mine in Western Australia and the collection is the 35th Tender since the operation became commercially active in 1983.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whilst bids and total values remain confidential, Lot 1, Argyle Enigma, the most valuable diamond in the collection, was won by Australian based Argyle Pink Diamonds partner Blue Star &amp; Kiven Diamonds. Blue Star &amp; Kiven Diamonds also won Lot 4, Argyle Verity,&#8221; Rio Tinto revealed.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ron Kiven, director of Blue Star &amp; Kiven Diamonds, no other diamonds on Earth match the rarity and provenance of Argyle pink diamonds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To have acquired two of the last Argyle pink diamonds to ever be unearthed, and one of the few Fancy Red Argyle diamonds in existence is the ultimate privilege,&#8221; Kiven said in a media statement.<\/p>\n<p>Rio Tinto\u2019s Argyle mine, located in the far north of Western Australia, produces virtually the world\u2019s entire supply of pink, red and violet diamonds.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The mine, however, is scheduled to close in 2020 after almost four decades of production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The miner reported double-digit growth in the number of bids for its 2019 Argyle Pink Diamonds Tender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1151047"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151118,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151047\/revisions\/1151118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1151047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1151047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1151047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}