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The 972 carats (194.4 g) Excelsior diamond, the largest found at the Jagersfontein Mine. The sixth-largest diamond in the world, the Jubilee , found at the Jagersfontein Mine. Jagersfontein Mine / ˌ j eɪ ɡ ər z ˈ f ɒ n t eɪ n / was an open-pit mine in South Africa , located close to the town of Jagersfontein and about 110 kilometres (68 ...
The Jagersfontein Mine is currently the deepest hand-excavated hole in the world and is known for: the 972 carat (194.4 g) Excelsior Diamond of 1893 and; the 637 carat (127.4 g) Reitz Diamond of 1895. [6] For the duration of the mine's operational history, it was run by De Beers up to 1972, when it was deproclaimed. De Beers did however retain ...
The Excelsior Diamond is a gem-quality diamond, and was the largest known diamond in the world from the time of its discovery in 1893 until 1905, when the Cullinan Diamond was found. It was found on June 30, 1893, at the Jagersfontein Mine in South Africa , 130 kilometres (81 miles) south east of Kimberley whose fame as a diamond mining center ...
A South African company is dumping the sludgy byproduct of mining into a historical diamond pit after the tailings dam that had stored the waste partially collapsed, killing one and leaving scores ...
Mine: Product(s) Coordinates: Associated town: Owner: Dates: Comments: Baken diamond mine: Diamond: Lower Orange River: Trans Hex????–Present Probable reserves are 21.2 million cubic meters of ore at an ore grade of 1.69 carats (338 mg) per 100 cubic meters (3.38 mg/m 3). There is a waste rock overburden of about 33 million cubic meters.
An early map drawn by George Paton on the eve of the discovery of diamonds mentions 'Teuzpan' which, when pronounced in the German way, sounds the way local Dutch/Afrikaans-speaking farmers would have pronounced (Du) Toit's Pan. [2] The name refers also to one of the major mines in Kimberley, the Dutoitspan mine.
It was considered the largest hand-dug excavation on earth. By 2005, however, it was reported that a researcher had re-examined mine records and found that the hand-dug portions of the Jagersfontein and Bultfontein diamond mines, also in South Africa, may have been deeper and/or larger in excavated volume. [2]
A diamond rush started in 1870 after farmer J.J. de Klerk found a 50 carat (10 g) diamond. This was about three years before diamonds were discovered 130 km away at Kimberley. Jagersfontein is known for many great finds, such as: the 972 carat (194.4 g) Excelsior Diamond of 1893 and; the 637 carat (127.4 g) Reitz Diamond of 1895.