{"id":843,"date":"2016-04-01T10:29:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T10:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/udkmy.com\/2016\/04\/01\/rio-tinto-unveils-impossibly-rare-violet-diamond\/"},"modified":"2016-04-01T10:29:31","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T10:29:31","slug":"rio-tinto-unveils-impossibly-rare-violet-diamond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canidodat.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/01\/rio-tinto-unveils-impossibly-rare-violet-diamond\/","title":{"rendered":"Rio Tinto Unveils \u2018Impossibly Rare\u2019 Diamond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne, Australia&#8211;Last year, Rio Tinto made an astounding discovery at its Argyle mine in Western Australia and never said a word about it.<\/p>\n<p>The diamond mining company unearthed a 9.17-carat piece of rough that yielded a stone Rio Tinto Diamonds\u2019 Patrick Coppens describes as \u201cimpossibly rare\u201d&#8211;a 2.83-carat fancy deep grayish blue violet diamond that it dubbed the \u201cArgyle Violet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is the largest violet diamond ever recovered from the mine. And now it will embark on a world tour, of sorts, as part of the 2016 Argyle Pink Diamonds Tender.<\/p>\n<p>The Gemological Institute of America assigned the oval-shaped stone a color grade of fancy deep grayish blue violet. In a peer-reviewed article in the spring 2009 edition of <i>Gems &amp; Gemology<\/i>, the GIA noted that the Argyle mine is the world\u2019s only known source of type IaB hydrogen- and nitrogen-rich diamonds colored gray to blue to violet. The article also noted that the more violet-hued stones in this range are colored by nickel defects.<\/p>\n<p>Rio Tinto said the Argyle Violet has a clarity of SI1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne, Australia&#8211;Last year, Rio Tinto made an astounding discovery at its Argyle mine in Western Australia and never said a word about it. The diamond mining company unearthed a 9.17-carat piece of rough that yielded a stone Rio Tinto Diamonds\u2019 Patrick Coppens describes as \u201cimpossibly rare\u201d&#8211;a 2.83-carat fancy deep grayish blue violet diamond that it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/canidodat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/kallyas_placeholder.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canidodat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canidodat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canidodat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canidodat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canidodat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canidodat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canidodat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canidodat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canidodat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canidodat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}